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University of Lagos
Project & SIWES Format Guide

The exact formatting University of Lagos students are expected to follow -- fonts, margins, spacing, and reference style -- with the real faculty and department list, so you know your document will be built right the first time.

What UniDraft builds for University of Lagos

All three document types are supported. Where University of Lagos’s exact format has been added to our catalog, the specifics below are real -- not estimated.

  • General guidance

    IT / SIWES Report

    Industrial training and SIWES report documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

  • General guidance

    Seminar Report

    Academic seminar report documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

  • General guidance

    Final Year Project

    Final-year project and thesis-style documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

Read the full University of Lagos SIWES report guide

University of Lagos at a glance

  • 19 faculties and 99 departments are in UniDraft's catalog for University of Lagos, the largest being Clinical Sciences with 9 departments.
  • No University of Lagos-specific formatting is on file yet, so documents start from the general Nigerian tertiary baseline (Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 spacing, APA) and adopt your department's and supervisor's instructions as you supply them.
  • Faculties covered: Architecture, Arts, Basic Clinical Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Communication and Media Studies, Computing and Informatics, Creative Arts, Dental Sciences, Education, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Health Professions, Law, Life Sciences, Management Sciences, Pharmacy, Physical and Earth Sciences, Social Sciences.
  • Official website: unilag.edu.ng. Check it, or your department, for the current handbook.

What your department type means for your University of Lagos report

These notes are general guidance by discipline, matched to the departments listed for University of Lagos. They are not University of Lagos rules; your supervisor’s and department’s instructions always take priority.

Health and medical sciences

21 departments listed: Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Anatomy, Medical Biochemistry and others.

Health-related departments often work under clinical or community placement arrangements of their own and follow a structured health-research format, with ethical approval where human participants are involved. Ask your department what applies to your programme.

APA and Vancouver are both used in health programmes; confirm which your department expects. Related reading: seminar topics for nursing and public health students and validity and reliability of questionnaires.

Natural and physical sciences

16 departments listed: Radiation Biology, Radiotherapy and Radiodiagnosis, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology/Biology, Biochemistry, Botany and others.

Science projects are usually laboratory, field or survey studies that report methods, results tables and statistics. Formulas, units and species names need careful formatting, and the results chapter must match what your methodology says you did.

APA is common in many science departments, but some follow another style, so confirm yours. Related reading: formatting chemical formulas and species names and choosing a statistical test.

Arts, humanities and law

13 departments listed: English, European Languages and Integration Studies, History and Strategic Studies, Linguistics, African and Asian Studies and others.

Arts, humanities and law projects tend to be text-based, analytical or doctrinal, built on sources, cases or texts rather than measured data. The literature review often carries more of the argument than it does in a laboratory project.

Styles vary widely here: some departments use APA, others MLA or Chicago, and some law departments use OSCOLA. Confirm yours. Related reading: how to write the literature review and how to write the references list.

Management and social sciences

10 departments listed: Mass Communication, Accounting, Business Administration, Employment Relations and Human Resource Management and others.

Projects in these departments are usually survey-based studies, so the questionnaire, the sample size and the choice of statistical test become the parts supervisors examine most closely.

APA is the most common style in management and social science departments. Related reading: the accounting and business SIWES report guide and how to design a questionnaire.

Faculties & departments at University of Lagos

UniDraft routes your document through your specific department’s rules on top of the university baseline above.

  • Architecture

    • Architecture
    • Interior Architecture and Design
    • Landscape Architecture and Urban Design

  • Arts

    • English
    • European Languages and Integration Studies
    • History and Strategic Studies
    • Linguistics, African and Asian Studies
    • Philosophy
    • Religious Studies

  • Basic Clinical Sciences

    • Anatomic and Molecular Pathology
    • Clinical Pathology
    • Clinical Pharmacology
    • Haematology and Blood Transfusion
    • Medical Microbiology and Parasitology

  • Basic Medical Sciences

    • Anatomy
    • Medical Biochemistry
    • Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology
    • Physiology

  • Clinical Sciences

    • Anaesthesia
    • Community Health and Primary Care
    • Medicine
    • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    • Ophthalmology
    • Paediatrics
    • Psychiatry
    • Radiation Biology, Radiotherapy and Radiodiagnosis
    • Surgery

  • Communication and Media Studies

    • Journalism, Broadcasting and Media Studies
    • Mass Communication
    • Public Relations and Advertising

  • Computing and Informatics

    • Computer Science
    • Cybersecurity and Software Engineering
    • Intelligent Systems and Robotics

  • Creative Arts

    • Fine and Applied Arts
    • Music and Sound Production
    • Theatre Arts and Film Studies

  • Dental Sciences

    • Child Dental Health
    • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology/Biology
    • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
    • Preventive Dentistry
    • Restorative Dentistry

  • Education

    • Adult Education
    • Arts Education
    • Educational Foundations
    • Educational Management
    • Human Kinetics and Health Education
    • Science Education
    • Social Sciences Education
    • Technology and Vocational Education

  • Engineering

    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
    • Petroleum and Gas Engineering
    • Surveying and Geoinformatics
    • Systems Engineering

  • Environmental Sciences

    • Building
    • Estate Management
    • Quantity Surveying
    • Urban and Regional Planning

  • Health Professions

    • Medical Laboratory Science
    • Nursing Science
    • Physiotherapy
    • Radiography

  • Law

    • Commercial and Industrial Law
    • Jurisprudence and International Law
    • Private and Property Law
    • Public Law

  • Life Sciences

    • Biochemistry
    • Botany
    • Cell Biology and Genetics
    • Fisheries and Aquaculture
    • Marine Science
    • Microbiology
    • Zoology

  • Management Sciences

    • Accounting
    • Actuarial Science and Insurance
    • Business Administration
    • Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
    • Finance

  • Pharmacy

    • Clinical Pharmacy and Biopharmacy
    • Pharmaceutical Chemistry
    • Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology
    • Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology
    • Pharmacognosy

  • Physical and Earth Sciences

    • Chemistry
    • Geosciences
    • Mathematics
    • Physics
    • Statistics

  • Social Sciences

    • Economics
    • Geography
    • Library and Information Science
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Social Work
    • Sociology

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Frequently asked questions

What format does University of Lagos require for a final year project?

University of Lagos's exact department-level format isn't in our catalog yet, so the specifics above are the general Nigerian tertiary-institution convention (Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 spacing, APA references). UniDraft still applies your supervisor's and department's specific instructions when you write with us.

What should University of Lagos students in health and medical sciences expect from a project?

Health-related departments often work under clinical or community placement arrangements of their own and follow a structured health-research format, with ethical approval where human participants are involved. Ask your department what applies to your programme. APA and Vancouver are both used in health programmes; confirm which your department expects. This is general guidance for the discipline, not a University of Lagos rule, so your supervisor's instructions win.

Does UniDraft support SIWES/IT reports for University of Lagos?

Yes. IT/SIWES reports, final year projects, and seminar reports are all supported. See the University of Lagos SIWES guide for report-specific structure.

Is this list of faculties and departments official?

This list reflects 99 departments across 19 faculties in UniDraft's catalog for University of Lagos, used to route your document to the right department-level rules. If your department is missing or misspelled, you can still enter it by hand when you start a document.

How does UniDraft know my supervisor's specific instructions?

You tell it. Supervisor and department instructions always take priority over the university-wide baseline shown above -- UniDraft layers your specific rules on top before generating anything.