JAMB, VCs Fix 120 As Cut-off Marks For Varsity Admission
…100 For Polys, Others
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), after a consultative meeting with Vice Chancellors (VCs) and other Heads of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, has announced the minimum cut-off marks for higher institutions in the country.
The meeting, however, agreed that academic institutions are at liberty to raise their cut-off marks for admission above the minimum set by JAMB.
The decision was taken at the 2017/2018 Combined Policy Meetings on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria which ended on Tuesday.
Accordingly, it approved 120 as minimum cut-off marks for admissions into universities in Nigeria, while Polytechnics and Colleges of Education has been pegged at 100 just as that of Innovative Enterprising Institutes was set for 110.
The meeting also resolved that no admission will be made by any institution without prior approval of JAMB.
The admissions into public degree awarding institutions for the 2017 UTME examination will end on January 15, 2018 while for private institutions will end on January 31, 2018.
The meeting also approved that the decisions on first choice candidates by universities which will end on October 15, 2017 and second choice candidates will end on December 15, 2017 after which the remaining students will be available in the market place for other institutions till the January 2018 closing dates.
JAMB has also introduced a Central Admission Processing System (CAPS), which will be used to streamline admission processes among institutions and to address challenges associated with the former approach.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, advocated a dynamic educational policy as related to admissions, adding that all over the world, there is agitation for dynamic educational policy.
He further said; “JAMB only admits for National Diploma, not Higher National Diploma; so why should we use the same requirement for ND and BSC. That is unreasonable parity. We should not be sentimental in fixing our cut-off mark; we need not over-dramatise issue of cut-off marks.”
