This study is aimed at determining the factors that are responsible for negative development in students’ enrolment as well as improving the popularity of Urban and Regional Planning among students during their admission. Urban and Regional Planning or Town/City/Physical Planning is a coordinating discipline concerned with spatial ordering of land uses in every environment. The research adopted survey method. Through this, quantitative analysis technique was utilized in the questionnaire representative samples data that generalized the population. The results of the students’ enrolment in Urban and Regional Planning are generally considered very poor. From the results in the table and bar chart, the Factor 1(F1): Geography as a compulsory subject for admission into Urban and Regional Planning affects students’ enrolment most with 88%. This is followed by Factor 5 (F5): Fear of unemployment after graduation. The third in affecting the enrolment is Factor 2 (F2): Course’s inadequate information; while the worst insignificant in affecting enrolment is Factor 6 (F6): High cost of the study which has 52%. The next insignificant is Factor 4 (F4): Candidates being Scared of Design with 61%, and barely insignificant being Factor 3 (F3) which is ignorance of the course’s graduates having 63%. It therefore recommended for remove of Geography as a compulsory subject for admitting students into the course study, providing solution to fear of unemployment or underemployment after graduation, sensitizing and educating people properly about the course.
Eze et al. (Sat,) studied this question.