______________________________________________________________ DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birle.v3i3.1197 1392 Consequences of High Population in Teaching and Learning of Computer Courses in Kwara State College of Education, Oro Madandola Tajudeen Niyi 1 , Sakariyau Sherif Niyi 2 , Salawu Omotayo 3 , Boye Eni Tina M.O 4 , Jimoh Ruth Olubukola 5 , Junaidi Salat 6 1,2,3,4,5 Department of Computer Science, Kwara State College of Education, Oro, Nigeria 6 Jabal Ghafur University, Indonesia nmadandola@yahoo.com I. Introduction The world advancement and sovereignty hangs on qualitative education. Educational planning in any nation has always beyond the financial capacity of the government (Adesina, 2000). Tanwa (2007) observed that environment is one of the rudimentary factors that influences way of life in any society. An environment performs a cogent role in the academic performance and health well-being of a man. The learner population and its arrangement in academic environment contributed greatly to academic performance of the learners. Human resources (HR) has a significant role in every activity in an institution including educational institutions (Tanjung, 2020). Countries in which women are better educated typically have smaller families and lower rates of population growth (stateuniversity.com: 2327). Banji (2005) opined that the population of an environment could be positively or negatively determined by early marriage, late marriage, death rate, wars, national disaster, and climatic condition. The world is with current population of over 7.6 billion people and growing, it could reach 8 billion by 2025, 9 billion by 2040, and a whopping 11 billion by 2100 because it is growing rapidly (LeBlanc, 2018). Dr. Banji classified population into two which are under population and over population. High population also referred to as over population in academic environment is when the number of learner is more than a few resources for their survival (Tanwa, 2007). Also, Agu (2007) referred to over population as a situation where the total number of people in an area excels the available resources. The people have limited resources to compete for and their standard of living is very low generally, thus will in turn increase the cost of living. Furthermore, Osuji (2008) defined overpopulation as shortage in resources development in Abstract The study scrutinised consequences of high population in teaching and learning of computer courses in Kwara State College of Education, Oro. The population for this study consisted of one hundred and twenty students of department of Computer Science, Kwara State College of Education Oro. Female students participated more in the study than the male students. Students between age brackets of 21 – 25 years have the highest frequency of respondents. Structured questionnaire was designed and used to collect data. The data gathered in section A of the questionnaire was analysed with frequency count and bar chart. The three formulated and tested alternative hypotheses were analysed with chi square statistical tool and all the three were accepted. The study exposed the negative consequences of overpopulated class in teaching and learning of computer courses. Keywords learning; teaching; computer course; frequency count; overpopulation