The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The decision was made on Tuesday during the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions, held at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.
According to the board, the cut-off mark for admission into universities across the country will be a minimum score of 150 in the 2025 UTME.
The cut-off marks for admission into Colleges of Nursing was decided to be a minimum of 140 while a score of 100 in the 2025 UTME will be sufficient to gain admission into Colleges of Agriculture and Colleges of Education.
JAMB wrote on its X handle “The minimum admissible scores for admissions for the next academic session have been fixed at 150 for universities, 100 for polytechnics, 100 for colleges of education, and 140 for colleges of nursing sciences by the stakeholders (Heads of Tertiary Institutions).”
Meanwhile, the federal government has officially pegged entry admission year into the nation’s tertiary institutions at age 16.
This came as the government warned that any admission conducted outside of the Central Admission Processing System, CAPS, would be illegal and perpetrators would be prosecuted.
Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, said this on Tuesday while declaring open the ongoing Policy Meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in Abuja.
He warned that the heads of institutions found to be engaged in admission fraud would face prosecution.
Alausa declared that the official age of 16 set by the government is not negotiable.
