MAPOLY Accredited Art and Commercial Courses, Entry Requirements

Browse this page for the accredited courses you can study as an art or a commercial student at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta.

As an O'level art or a commercial student, your studied subjects at secondary school should be: Mathematics and English Language and five or six of the following

  • Economics
  • Commerce
  • Government
  • Literature in English
  • History
  • Religion Studies (Christian Religion Studies or Islamic Religion Studies)
  • Geography
  • Fine and Applied Art
  • Food and Nutrition
  • Civic Education
  • One Nigerian Language (Yoruba/Hausa/Igbo)
  • Home Management
  • Financial Accounting/Book Keeping
  • French
  • Home Economics

As an art of a commercial students, five credit passes in English Language, Mathematics and any other three (3) subjects above eligible you to study the under listed courses at MAPOLY.

  • Accountancy
  • Business Administration
  • Marketing
  • Banking & Finance 
  • Mass Communication 
  • Leisure and Tourism
  • Hospitality Management

Note: for any courses, Literature in English or Oral English are not acceptable as a substitute for English Language.


Subjects Combination

For Accounting and Banking & Finance 

Other three (3) subjects accepted by MAPOLY are from:

  • Economic/Commerce/Business Method/Book Keeping/Financial Accounting/Principles of Account. (Compulsory)
  • Government/History
  • Literature in English 
  • Geography
  • Yoruba/Hausa/Igbo
  • CRS/Arabic

For Business Administration and Marketing: Economics or Commerce is compulsory 

For Mass Communication

The three (3) other subjects should be from Government/History, Economics, Geography, Business Studies/Method, English Literature, Biology, Accounting/Book Keeping, (Yoruba/Hausa/Igbo/French), CRS/Islamic Religion Study.

For Leisure and Tourism

Aside Mathematics and English Language, Geography is also compulsory. Then two other subjects from Economics/ Commerce, History, Book Keeping, Principles of Account, Fine Arts, French, Food & Nutrition, Home Economics, Government and one Nigerian language.

Hospitality Management 

Though Hospitality Management is not counted as one of the art or a commercial courses but a commercial or an art student can still study the course at MAPOLY, especially if the student have Biology and Home Economic/Catering/Food and Nutrition at credit pass in his result.

Then the subjects combination will be:

  • Mathematics
  • English Language
  • Biology/Agricultural Science/Food & Nutrition and two of 
  • Home Economics
  • Government
  • One Nigeria Language
  • Economics

Share This