UL Adjusts Entrance Schedules for Candidates -13,000 Undergraduates, Others Expected to Sit Tomorrow

MONROVIA – The country’s unarguably biggest academic referral institution, the University of Liberia, has once again got scores of bangs on its doors, with some 13,000 people wanting to enter through them.  But, like all other academic institutions, the doors are open only for those who are prepared—those who are able to work out passing marks at the checkpoint of placement exams that are administered annually. Earlier dates for the tests this term being unfeasible, perhaps a way of ensuring the opportunity for entry is accorded more desirous citizens, the UL has made a couple of adjustments, as The Analyst reports.

Postponed a fortnight ago, the University of Liberia entrance and placement exam is now to take place Saturday, July 12, 2025. According to a UL release, more than 13,000 undergraduate candidates and several others are expected to sit.

The exam is the main admission pathway to becoming a student of the UL. It will be administered in Monrovia, Montserrado County, and Sinje, Grand Cape Mount, where the University’s Technical and Vocational College is located, the release said.

Some of those who will be successful on the exam could form part of the new academic year scheduled to begin after August 24, 2025, according to the revised academic calendar.

According to the Public Affairs Department, this will be the first cohort of UL President Dr. Layli Maparyan, who became the 16th President of the UL and third woman to lead one of Africa’s oldest degree granting institutions.

Since assuming the UL presidency, Dr. Maparyan has moved swiftly to adjust some of the long-standing problems of the UL, including revising the academic calendar to ensure predictability as to when school opens, said the release, which further added that “she reintroduced the holding of vacation school to accelerate and ensure student completion rate.”

She reportedly has also taken swift administrative decisions, including firing eight employees and suspending one found to be complicit in an academic fraud scheme.

Said the release: “The exam and aptitude tests will be administered only in Montserrado County and at UL’s David A. Straz-Sinje Campus located in Sinje, Grand Cape Mount County.

Undergraduate candidates will sit the paper-based exam this Saturday, while candidates for Graduate and Professional Schools will sit the rolling computer-based aptitude tests Monday, July 14 through July 30, 2025.”

Accordingly, the exam and aptitude tests have attracted high public interest as the University of Liberia continues to expand its academic programs while flagging quality learning and research for students and professionals.

The Undergraduate Paper-based Exam will be administered on Saturday, July 12, 2025, in Montserrado and on Straz-Sinje Campus.

Rolling Computer-based Aptitude Tests for the Graduate and Professional Schools will be administered from Monday, July 14, to Saturday, July 30 according to the following schedule:

The schedule for far:

Graduate School July 14 —17, 2025

School of Pharmacy    July 18, 2025

Medical School July 18 — 22, 2025

Law School          July 23 — 29, 2025

All remaining candidates combined on July 30, 2025

These rolling digital tests can be written more than once, but each attempt requires a separate payment and confirmation.

The University allows students completing Secondary School (current 12th graders) to sit for the Undergraduate Entrance Exam.

The UL said the adjustment of the timeline by the administration for the 2025 Entrance and Placement Exam and Aptitude Test is to allow all applicants who paid fees at the bank to complete the registration process and obtain their Exam Identification Numbers.