JAMB pegs admission cut-off marks at 140,100, 100 respectively

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has pegged admissions cut-off marks for universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education (COE) at 140, 100 and 100 respectively.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede was speaking at the 2024 Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Abuja on Thursday.

Oloyede said that the policy meeting was scheduled to give plans and modalities for the conduct of the 2024 admission exercise as well as steps and procedures provided in their advisories.

He added no university, polytechnics and colleges of education must admit candidates less than minimum cut-off requirements.

He, therefore, said that institutions were also mandated to adhere strictly to their various admission requirement stipulated in the Central Admissions Processing Systems (CAPS) institutions.

Reeling out 2023 admissions statistics of candidates with UTME high scores but without admissions, Oloyede said out of the 5,261 candidates that scored 300 and above, 1,273 were not admitted.

He said that of the 41,466 candidates who scored 250 and above, 15,399 were not admitted and of the 296,909 who scored 200 and above, 138,754 were not admitted.

“For Medicine and Surgery and Pharmacy, the board gave 66,386 as quota but received 331,208 applications and could only give admissions to 62,792 students.

“For sciences, he said a quota of 265,634 was given in the 2023 admissions but received 300,267 applications while 138,795 were admitted.

“In the arts and humanity category, Oloyede added that 54,755 quota was given, while the board received 89,634 applications but 40,298 admissions were given.

“Also in the education category, 129,275 quota was released while the board received 114,751 applications but gave admissions to 75,937 candidates,” he said.

Oloyede listed three candidates with the best results of 367 scores as Oluwasijibomi Olowu, from Ondo state, David Alayande from Oyo State and Ehijele Orukpe from Edo State.

Others are Jewel Emmanuel from Akwa Ibom scored 366, Joshua Essiet from Akwa Ibom scored 365 and Valerie Ezenwoko from Abia State scored 365, among others.

It was reported that the Pan-Atlantic University, Ibeju-Lekki, Convenant University, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and the University of Lagos has 200 as the minimum admissible scores in the CAPS.

Also, Afe Babalola University Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil, Lagos said University of Science and Technology, Ikorodu has 180 as minimum admissible scores in the CAPS.