JAMB adopts 150, 100 as cut-off marks for varsity, poly admissions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 150 as the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) cut-off mark for 2025 admission into the nation’s universities.

JAMB also adopted 100 as cut-off mark for polytechnics and colleges of education, while 140 was approved for colleges of nursing.

The board announced this at its 2025 policy meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, July 8.

“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),” it in a statement shared on X.

The policy meeting approved 150 as minimum UTME score for admission into universities for the 2025 academic year after deliberations and proposals from various vice-chancellors and heads of institutions.

The decision followed proposals ranging from 130 to 160 by stakeholders.

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Meanwhile the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has warned that any institution that failed to upload its updated admission rules would be sanctioned.

Oloyede also stated that failure of institutions to upload senate-approved brochure to JAMB’s Integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS) portal by the end of October would amount to forfeiting the right to use any altered admission criteria for the 2026 session.

He advised that the uploaded information must be available before the official brochure for 2026 is published.

Speaking on the timeline for the conclusion of the 2025/2026 admission exercise, he said that public universities must end their admission processes by the end of October 2025, while private universities by end of November.

The JAMB boss said polytechnics and colleges of education must conclude their admissions processes by the end of December 2025.

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