The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has approved 140 as the cut-off mark for 2024 admission into the nation’s universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education, respectively, even as it fixed 18 years as minimum age for candidates seeking admission into higher institutions of learning in the country as from next academic session in 2025
Stakeholders including heads of tertiary institutions on Thursday during the 2024 annual policy meeting on admissions held
at the Body Benchers, Headquarters in Abuja, agreed at the score as The National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS), popularly known as the cut-off mark
The meeting was held following the successful conduct of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
where only 25 percent of the 1,904,189 candidates who sat for the UTME within six days of the examination, scored above 200 marks
A total of 1,989,668 candidates according to JAMB, registered candidates for this year’s UTME while 80,810 were absent, leaving a total of 1,904,189 who sat for the examination
The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman who chaired the policy meeting reluctantly agreed with stakeholders on 16years as minimum age for this year's admission into universities while insisting on 18 years as minimum entrance age for candidates as from next academic session in 2025 amongst other recommendations by the heads of institutions.
Registrar of JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, who announced the cutoff marks, explained that individual institutions were at liberty to raise their minimum benchmark approved at the policy meeting but could not go below what was approved for various institutions.
The Minister made it clear that his decision that only candidates who have clocked 18 years be offered admissions now takes effect from 2025
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