FACULYU OF EDUCATION

This study was carried out to identify the factors influencing youth involve in cultism, a case study of undergraduate students in the University of Benin. The research was carried out as a survey research using relevant literature from journals, magazines, books and the internet. Four research questions were raised for the purpose of the study. A sample random sampling technique was used in selection of two hundred (200) university of Benin students. The data were collected with questionnaire instrument and analyzed using simple percentage. The result revealed that; the factors influencing university of Benin students into cultism are, inferiority complex, parental upbringing, broken homes, protection and students indulge in cultism because those caught in cult activities are not persecuted, the effect of cultism on the academic performances student are there is decline in the academic of a cultist, students who involve in cultism spends lots of extra years in school, absenteeism from classes and most of them end up not graduating at all, the rate of cultism on campus is low, as most students of the University of Benin are likely forced into cultism because of their resident area. Based on the results, it was recommended that professional guidance counselors should organize public lectures, seminars and workshops for students on the dangers of cultism, parents and Guardians should inculcate been apprehended by security operatives should be paraded and publicly sanctioned so that other students can learn from it and finally, on the part of the stakeholders in the university education (the churches, the mosques, parents, school administrators and the society at large) to fuse effort to eradicate the menace before it destroys the whole educational system.