The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has disclosed that Nigerian universities’ vice chancellors have agreed on a minimum of 140 as the benchmark for admissions for the 2023/2024 academic session.
The JAMB boss who made the disclosure during the 2023 policy meeting in Abuja, however, said universities were allowed to decide on individual cut-off marks for their candidates.
Findings revealed that the University of Jos had proposed 180 as the cut-off while the University of Ibadan, the University of Benin and the University of Lagos had proposed 200 as the cut-off marks.
It was gathered that the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos State, had so far fixed the highest cut-off mark of 220, even as no fewer than 15 universities, particularly the private universities, had asked for further reduction of the benchmark. However, the request was turned down while the benchmark for admissions to colleges of education and polytechnics had been fixed at 100.
“We have heard the voices of the majority. Most of the universities have agreed and the decision stands that 140 is the minimum benchmark for admissions,” the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Andrew Adejoh reportedly said.