Areas/Careers in Home Economics

Contents & notes: what this topic covers

Under Areas/Careers in Home Economics, the JAMB Home Economics syllabus expects you to study:

• 2. Areas/Careers in Home Economics a. Home Management - Interior decoration - Credit management - Florist - Child Care - Social welfare care, etc.
• b. Foods and Nutrition - Catering - Dietetics - Nutritionist - Public Health Education, etc.
• c. Clothing and Textile - Textile designing - Fashion designing - Modelling - Laundry, etc.
• d. Family and Child development - Early and Childhood education - Child care, etc.
• e. Teaching f. Counselling g. Media h. Research

Study notes & guidance

Study Areas/Careers in Home Economics using a recommended Home Economics textbook that follows the JAMB syllabus. Work through the contents listed above one by one, make brief notes in your own words, and then practise as many questions on this topic as you can — in Home Economics, understanding and steady practice matter far more than memorising. Use the objectives below as a checklist: if you can do each one confidently, you have mastered this topic.

Objectives — candidates should be able to

After studying Areas/Careers in Home Economics, you should be able to:

1. Recommend possible vocations in the different areas of Home Economics;
2. Relate Home Economics to each vocation;
3. Assess the benefits of each vocation to the individual, society and nation;
4. Identify current vocations in Home Economics;
5. Identify sources of career information.

These objectives are from the official JAMB syllabus. Use them as a checklist — if you can do each one confidently, you have mastered this topic.

Source: official JAMB UTME Home Economics syllabus (IBASS, jamb.gov.ng). Reproduced for study use. Last checked: 17 Sept 2026. Always confirm the current syllabus on the official portal.