JAMB releases new cut-off mark for admission into tertiary institutions

JAMB releases new cut-off mark for admission into tertiary institutions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and heads of tertiary education institutions in the country have released a new minimum cut-off mark for admissions in the 2022/2023 academic session.

At the meeting, the minimum cut-off mark for universities was reviewed to 140 while that of polytechnics and colleges of education, respectively, were pegged at 100.

These were announced at the ongoing Policy Meeting on Admissions, presided by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in Abuja, Thursday

JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who announced the cut-off after after thorough debates and votes by vice chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics and provosts of colleges of education, said the implication was that “every institution has the right to fix its own cut-off mark even up to 220 but no one would be allowed to go less than the agreed minimum marks of 100 for colleges of education, 100 for polytechnics and 140 for universities.”

The meeting also called for the review of admission criteria to give 10per cent discretional power of admission to heads of tertiary institutions.

Recall that the 2022 UTME who over 1.7 million candidates registered and sat for across the country,began on Friday, May 6,2022 ,and ended on Friday 13th May, 2022.

He disclosed that only 378,639 of the 1,761,338 who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations ,UTME, scored 200 and above.

The JAMB head at the event, also said the Minister of Education,Malam Adamu Adamu,has approved that A’level results by the National Business and Technical Education Board,NABTEB, will no longer be considered for admission into higher institutions after 2022.