The UNILAG Route: 8 Degrees and Where Each One Leads

The game data states three things per degree: faculty, programme length, and a mapping to an associated skill plus the careers it feeds. That makes the university a structured alternative to grinding skill trainers — a Computer Science degree builds coding and feeds the Tech career, which starts at ₦9,900 per shift and tops out at ₦76,500 as CTO. Fees are recorded as a flat ₦20,000 (school-wide constant, not per-degree), and programmes run four or five years.

Computer Science is a 4-year Faculty of Science programme; Systems Engineering is 5 years in Engineering. Both build coding and feed the Tech career family. If your target is the Product Management track (₦20,000 level-1, coding level 3 required) or the Oil & Gas alternative gate, the data says either degree lands you on the same skill. The 13 career-prep courses in the game include a Software Developer course, which the data describes as covering which path to pick and how to land the job.

Accounting (4 years, Management Sciences) builds hustle and feeds three career families at once — Banking, Trading, and Retail. Mass Communication (4 years, Social Sciences) builds charisma and feeds Content Creator and Football Pundit. Creative Arts (4 years, Arts) builds music and feeds Music, DJ, and Event Planning — the creative cluster. If you're undecided, Accounting's three-way feed is the broadest verified return in the degree table.

Law is a 5-year programme in the Faculty of Law building charisma, feeding the Law career (₦9,100 at level 1, rising to a recorded top tier). Nursing Science is 5 years in the College of Medicine, builds fitness, and feeds Nursing. Education is 4 years in the Faculty of Education, builds charisma, and feeds Teaching. Notably, Nursing's fitness association points the same direction as the Medicine career gate — the game consistently treats fitness as the health-career skill.

Here's the honest comparison the data supports: degrees cost ₦20,000 and 4–5 years but bundle a skill with career access and thirteen career-prep courses (including Money Smart, the only finance-literacy course in the list). Direct skill training is free and faster per session — Lift Weights builds fitness at rate 2.0 from day one — but unlocks the gate without any credential attached. Whether employers in-game treat a degree differently from a raw level-3 skill is not recorded in the extracted data; that's a question for in-game testing before we publish it as advice.