The Joint Admission And Matriculation Board has approved 160 and above as the national minimum benchmark for admission for the year 2020 into public universities.
The meeting held virtually, on Tuesday, also approved 140 as minimum
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score for admission into
private universities
For public polytechnic, 120 UTME score was approved, while 100 was
approved for Colleges of Education, innovative enterprises and
institutes.
During the meeting, JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, urged tertiary institution heads not to increase admission screening charges above N2000.
Oloyede in his speech stated that only 1,157,977 candidates had the required five credits with English Language and Mathematics that sat for the UTME held in 2019.
0 Comments