The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced the general cut-off mark for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions in the country for 2020/2021 Academic Session.

According to JAMB Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who made this known during the policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions in Nigeria on Tuesday, the minimum score for admission seekers into public universities is set at 160 while that of polytechnics is pegged at 120 with that of colleges of education set at 100.

The JAMB Registrar said 612,557 candidates were offered admission in 2019 out of the 1.8m that wrote the examination while about 510,957 admission spaces were unused by tertiary institutions in 2019.

Oloyede, said admission into all universities would be conducted on Central Admission Processing System and that candidates waiting for their results will only be considered when they are uploaded on its website.

In his remarks, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who was represented by the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, directed JAMB and tertiary institutions to proceed with the conduct of 2020/2021 admissions. He said admission processes are expected to commence in August based on the guidelines released by JAMB.

The minister appealed to JAMB and tertiary institutions to consider candidates with previous years’ Senior School Certificate Examination and other qualifying results for the admission process.

He said the government will make an arrangement to accommodate applicants who will be taking the examination when the opportunity to do so is worked out.

Source: https://campusportalng.com/jamb/jamb-utme-cut-off-mark-out/21724/

With this announcement, public tertiary institutions in the country are expected to commence their admission process by August. Cc: Lalasticlala