By Onoja Baba, Nigeria
The minimum admission benchmark for Nigerian universities in the 2025 academic year has been fixed at 150.
This was the outcome of the policy meeting held on Tuesday by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), with Vice Chancellors and other heads of tertiary institutions.
With this decision, no university in Nigeria will be allowed to admit candidates who score below 150 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Despite the general benchmark, some institutions have opted for higher cut-off marks.
The University of Ibadan, University of Lagos, and Pan-Atlantic University are among those that have pegged their minimum scores at 200.
Reports also indicate that a few newly established private universities proposed lower benchmarks, with some suggesting scores as low as 120.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, had earlier recommended 160 as a suitable national cut-off, but the consensus among stakeholders settled at 150.
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