One of the challenges facing Nigeria higher education is cultism. Secret cults have developed into socio-cultural menace and assumed a disturbing dimension in recent times on Nigerian university campuses. Cultism breeds gruesome acts of destruction, deviance, violence and homicide. This study constructed and tested a model for providing a causal explanation of cult membership in terms of socio - psychological and academic factors among university students in Southwestern Nigeria, with a view to developing an empirical approach that would further add to an informed understanding of the problem...