THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced it today that 160 and above as the cut-off mark for admission into universities across the country for the 2020/2021 academic session.
Mr, Ishaq Oloyede,The JAMB Registrar who revealed this today Tuesday 16th of June 2020 as part of the outcome of the 2020 policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions which was held virtually said polytechnics cut-off marks is decided to be 120 and above while Colleges of Education’s cut-off mark is 100 and above.
JAMB also cautioned the management of universities not to charge above N2000 for admission screening exercise,
He further disclosed that 612, 557 candidates were offered admission in 2019.
"About 510,957 admission spaces were unused by tertiary institutions in 2019, adding that only 1,157,977 candidates had the required five credits with English and Mathematics that sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in the previous year.
“Out of 1,157,977 candidates who sat for UTME in 2019, about 612,557 were admitted,” Oloyede said.
Furthermor, he noted that candidates waiting for their results will only be consideredffor admission when they are uploaded on its website.
Adamu Adamu, The Minister of Education, directed JAMB and tertiary institutions to proceed with the conduct of 2020/2021 admissions whose processes are expected to commence in August based on the guidelines released by JAMB.
"The government will make arrangement that will accommodate applicants who will be taking the examination when the opportunity to do so is worked out,
As major stakeholders, we must jointly come up with reactions that would realign our programmes to these new realities,” Adamu said.
A resolution was agreed upon that candidates with olevels of previous years should be allowed to obtain and start admission processes.
While an arrangement will be worked upon for those who wants to write olevels this year.
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