I spoke extensively with Maduka Onyishi whom is the founder of Maduka University.
I asked him why they were charging students N2 million for transcript and he explained in detail the reason.
Maduka University and Godfrey Okoye University are the only 2 accredited private universities in Enugu that offer medicine. Others are federal and state universities which are very difficult to get in due to very high JAMB score requirement and also admission racketeering.
Their university is currently allowed to admit maximum of 50 students for medicine while federal universities have slot for 250 students.
So students who scored very low in JAMB comes to join their school for a year and in 200 level requests for transcript to port to a federal university because at that time JAMB score is no more required.
When they noticed the pattern, they had to introduce a high fee on transcripts to reduce that.
This doesn’t apply in all courses in the university. It’s only for medicine, nursing and pharmacy.
To be accredited the university is required to hire same number of lecturers and equipments a federal university has but the low slot of 50 is heavily impacting them negatively.
Engaging in further research, I realized that every private university accredited to offers medicine charges same and some charges way more.
This is a way these universities curtail that practice.