The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, had on Tuesday, announced the admission cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Kokomansion understands that the JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, at the 20th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria which held in Abuja disclosed that cut off mark for universities was pegged at 160.
Oloyede added that polytechnics cut-off mark was put at 120 and above while that of the Colleges of Education stands at 100 and above.
Oloyede said the board also approved 140 as the minimum UTME score for admission into private universities.
According to the JAMB registrar, a total of 612, 557 candidates were offered admission in 2019 just as he said about 510,957 admission spaces were unused by tertiary institutions in 2019.
