CATEGORY A - Private oversea locally- based vocational institutions

These are vocational instiution that are branches of oversea institutions collages or universities. They offer oversea courses through their local centers.

CATEGORY B - Commercial vocational institutions.

These institutions are located within industrial areas mainly they belong to a industry and there are estiblished for the purpose of training and retraining workers in the industry.

CATEGORY C - Local private institutions

These are mainly small-skilled private vocational institution that are run by private individuals, families or communities but offering registered courses of other training providers.

CATEGORY D - Tertiary vocational institutions

This comparises of all TVET institutions that are either wholly or partly subsidized by the government. Some may still may be in the process of the comming autonomous while some have become fully autonomous numbers.Most of these institutions offer courses from certificate to diploma although a number of them have registered their interests in offering degree programs in the ner future.

CATEGORY E - School-based vocational institutions

School-based vocational institutions are vocational centers which are attached to existing secontry school under the same management and head of the secondary school. They offer courses mainly for school feavers in preparing for entering the tertiary vocational institutions.