Nonregular higher education in Nigeria became an integral part of the university manpower development since 1960, when the Ashby Commission recommended establishing evening degree programs. These ubiquitous programs have contributed to national capacity-building and remain relatively unmonitored by the National Universities Commission. This article examined the relative service quality levels among 368 undergraduate students from the regular and nonregular marketing programs at Abia State University. The regular program served as the control. The study found that besides long results' turnaround time being the nonregular students' dominant stressor (followed by the state of facilities), the nonregular program deviated from an ideal benchmark by 81% as opposed to the regular program's 47%. The study recommended a paradigm shift in competitive university governance for nonregular marketing programs that prioritizes speedy results publication and facilities upgrade.