JAMB APPROVES 140 AS BENCHMARK FOR ADMISSION INTO UNIVERSITY …. polytechnics and colleges of education are 100
By: Doris Oliver
The joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB) has approved 140 as the benchmark for admission into federal, state, and private universities in the country. This decision was reached in a meeting with tertiary education stakeholders where “the National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS),” otherwise known as the cut-off mark for 2023 admission into the nation’s universities was reached.
The benchmarks of 140 for universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education were arrived at during the 2023 annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, which was held in Abuja on Saturday.
The policy meeting, chaired by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew Adejoh, took the decision to follow recommendations by the heads of institutions.
JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, said the minimum benchmark is not a single-suit-fits-all for all institutions, though the meeting decides the minimum point, “institutions have the liberty to raise their individual minimum points higher than the agreed benchmark.”
“Anything we decide here will become the minimum. What it means is that nobody can go below it,” Mr Oloyede said.
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew Adejoh pointed out that about fifteen private universities who had earlier chosen 120 and 130 as minimum points would have to increase their minimum points to at least 140.
Also, all polytechnics and colleges of education can not admit students with less than 100 minimum score.
