JAMB Releases New CUT-OFF Mark for University Admission

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the cut-off mark for admission into all tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

JAMB, and stakeholders in education sector, Tuesday met in Abuja to set the cut off mark for 2015\2016 admission into tertiary institutions in the country.

For 2015\2016 admission, the new cut off is
180 for degree courses and 150 for non-degree courses. And all admission process must be concluded by 31st of October, 2015.

At the 2015 combined policy meeting on admissions to degree, National Certificate of Education, NCE and National Diploma, ND, Awarding institutions, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, while declaring open the meeting said as stakeholders in education sector everybody have a role to play in the development of education in the country.

According to the Permanent Secretary, “So what we did today is to ensure that we clearly agree on the procedures and timeline and other issues relating to admission in our tertiary institutions. And the most important is that we have agreed on a deadline, when admission would be completed. We agreed that all admission process should be completed by 31st of October, 2015.

"Very importantly we also agreed on a cut-off mark, just like last year, for degree awarding courses it was agreed 180 marks and for non degree awarding courses 150 marks. Admission would be based on ration 60:40 in favour of science courses to Art courses and ration 70:30 for courses in Technology and non technology courses respectively”.

All institutions have been directed to ensure they adhere to instruction on the cut-off marks and deadline for completing admission processes.

Over 1.4 million candidates took the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.