Abstract:
This paper investigated "A comparative Analysis of Students' Overpopulation on Availability of
Resources between Federal and State Universities in North Central Nigeria. Two research questions
and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the ex-post facto research design. The
population of the respondents was 13,784 made up of all academic and senior administrative staff of
Federal and State Universities in North Central Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used
to select a sample of 269 made up of 125 academic staff and 144 senior administrative staff from
Federal university of Agriculture Makurdi and Benue State University, Makurdi. The proportionate
stratified random sampling technique of balloting without replacement was used to select the
universities and the respondents for the study. The instrument used for data collection were a 20-item
structured checklist compared against National Universities Commission (NUC) benchmark on
Provision of Resources in universities in Nigeria, using a four point modified rating scale of High
Available (HA), Moderately Available (MA), Low Available (LA) and Not Available (NA). Mean
and standard deviation were used to test the hypotheses while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at
0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that there is no significant mean effect of students'
overpopulation on the availability of resources between Federal and State Universities. And
recommended among others that Federal and State Government should increase funding to Public
Universities, so that the NUC benchmark for provision of resources can be met.
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