JAMB Announces cut-off Mark for UTME 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. It was announced for 2015\2016 admission,
cut off would be 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”.
Nwaobiala, also called on institutions to ensure they
adhere to  instruction on the cut-off marks and
deadline for completing admission processes.
Meanwhile,  the JAMB Registrar, Professor Dibu
Ojerinde, while presenting his paper, accused 15
universities, 15 Polytechnics and 15 Colleges of
Education of regularization of admission in 2014
admission process; he warned all tertiary institutions
to henceforth stop admitting such students.

The institutions he accused included,University of
Port-Harcourt with 4,132 candidates, Ladoke Akintola
University Of Technology, Ogbomoso, 3,746, Delta
State University, Abraka, 3,217, Niger Delta
University, Bayelsa, 3,217, Lead City University,
Ibadan, 1,873, Caritas University, Amorji-Nike, Enugu,
1,078, University Of Abuja, Abuja, 1,031, Oduduwa
University, Ipetumodu, 943, Tai Solarin Univ. Of
Education, Ijebu-Ode, 855, Tansain University Oba
Anambra State 833, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro
832, University Of Calabar 760, Federal University,
Gusau, Zamfara State 673, Madonna University, Okija
612, and Crescent University, Abeokuta
471candidates.

In Polytechnic Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna 5,510
candidates, Abia State Polytechnic,Aba 4,322 , Kogi
State Polytechnic, Lokoja, 3,907 candidates, to
mention a few of the schools.
In Colleges of Education, COE, the College Of
Education, Nsukka, Enugu State 1,175 candidates,
Umar Suleiman College Of Education, Gashua 1,058,
Kano State College Of Education, Kano 951
candidates.

He warned, “With effect from 2015/2016 academic
session, the Board will adequately sanction
defaulters who seek for regularization of admissions.
This is to ensure that our institutions complete their
admissions within the period of admissions
exercise”.

The JAMB boss also called on all institutions that
admit Interim Joint Admission Board, IJMB, into 100
level instead of 200 level to henceforth stop it, “It has
been discovered that some institutions admit holders
of IJMB to 100 levels. This practice SHOULD STOP.
Henceforth, all holders of IJMB results should be
admitted into 200 levels of the programmes of their
choices”.
Ojerinde said University of Ilorin has the highest
number of candidates for first choice, with 105,032
candidates followed by University of Benin with
71,273 and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka with
70,430 candidates.
He said over 1.4 million candidates took 2015 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination.