Title: A Comparison of Eduacation Systems in Nigeria and the United States of America APPROVED BY MEMBERS OF THE THESIS COMMITTEE:

The major purpose of this research study is contrived to determine and evaluate the historical backgrounds of Nigeria and the United States and its implications in the educational policies and systems of the two nations. Both these countries had their humble beginning under the British colonial administration. The United States is a developed nation while Nigeria is a developing country. The development of the United States schools antedates even the earliest immigrants to the new world in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. The first thirteen states that 2 emerged in 1776 were from England and had had the firsthand knowledge of those educational policies and systems. The study has revealed that at least three percent of the male immigrants were university graduates of highly influential calibre. The opposite was the case in Nigeria. The consequence was that the American attitudes towar