The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced new minimum admissible scores for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
The decision was reached during the annual admission policy meeting held in Abuja on Monday, involving heads of tertiary institutions nationwide.
According to JAMB, university vice-chancellors, rectors and other institutional heads unanimously agreed that the minimum admissible score for admission into universities and colleges of nursing sciences would be 150, while polytechnics would admit candidates with a minimum score of 100.
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“The Heads of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria had unanimously agreed that the Minimum Admissible Scores for admissions into Universities should be 150, Colleges of Nursing, 150, and Polytechnics, 100,” the examination body stated after the meeting.
The development forms part of ongoing reforms in Nigeria’s tertiary education admission system aimed at streamlining admission processes and broadening access to higher education.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government had earlier announced that candidates seeking admission into colleges of education would no longer be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).