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*Says 612, 557 candidates were offered admission in 2019 By Joseph Erunke ABUJA — THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has set benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2020 school session. JAMB disclosed Tuesday, at its policy meeting held online that cut-off mark for admission into tertiary institutions ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has kicked-off the admission exercise for 2020/2021 academic year for tertiary institutions with the announcement of cut-off points for admissions. The Board announced cut-off points for various institutions: universities from 160, polytechnics from 120, colleges of education and innovative ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of institutions at the 2020 Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions have fixed cut-off marks for the forthcoming admission exercise. At the policy meeting held via virtual which was declared open by the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, urged heads of tertiary institutions to adhere to the ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed the best candidates in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ( UTME). In JAMB’s 2020 policy meeting document seen by PREMIUM TIMES, the candidates scored between 352 and 365 in their UTME. Two candidates from Anambra State outshone others with 365 and 363 scores, respectively. They were followed by a ... Read more

About 51 degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria will not admit candidates who scored below 180 in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for any programme. This is according to a document from the (JAMB). how JAMB announced 160 as the official (minimum) cut off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given reasons why about 500,000 candidates failed to gain admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in 2019 session. JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede explained that admission spaces were not allocated to candidates, representing 45.48 per cent of ... Read more

The Matriculation Board(JAMB) has dispelled rumours of mass failure in the recently-conducted 2021 Unified Tertiary Matricultion Examination(UTME). The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, made this clarification on Thursday, 1st July 2021, in his office, at the Board's National Headquarters, Bwari, when he received the delegation of the National Association of Nigerian ... Read more

No fewer than 1,300,000 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates may lose their admission into universities and polytechnics in 2020 over the delay in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the category of candidates who used awaiting results to sit the 2020 UTME, which held between ... Read more

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has released the guidelines for 2020 admission exercise, encouraging institutions to strictly comply with the guidelines for a successful 2020 admission exercise. The document which has, apparently, been dispatched to institutions, went with an appeal from JAMB to heads of institutions and admission officers to carefully study and understand ... Read more

A lot of students are eagerly waiting for the JAMB cut off mark from their potential institutions. While some are waiting to see if their preferred school cutoff mark would tally with theirs, others are thinking about how they would change their institution/course. However, some do not care about the cutoff point because their score is way more than the average benchmark which is 200. We ... Read more