The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has retained the cut off marks of 180 for university candidates and 150 for non-degree awarding institution sfor the 2015/2016 academic session.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, who
made the announcement on Tuesday in Abuja, at the 7th policy meeting of
stakeholders in the tertiary education sector, said degree-awarding
institutions, such as universities would require 180 as minimum mark for those seeking
to gain entry this year while NCE and ND-awarding institutions, like colleges
of education and polytechnics would accept 150 as the least UTME score for the
2015 session.
Meanwhile, Professor Ojerinde has announced Imo
state and the University of Ilorin as having the highest number of applicants
from the states and first choice of University respectively, while FCT brings
up the rear as the state with the least number of applicants.
Ojerinde further flayed the admission policies of
some universities, whereby candidates are admitted through the back door with
the university failing to regularise such admissions. He mentioned the
Universities of Port Harcourt and Abuja as topping the list of 15 universities
that are fond of admitting students illegally without the approval and
knowledge of the board. He advised them to take urgent steps to regularise
these admissions.
Earlier, while declaring the meeting open, the
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala, said
government will do all it can to encourage the rapid transformation of the
education sector through enhanced access to the majority of the applicants.
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