Breaking: JAMB sets new cut-off marks for Universities

• The new minimum cutoff, according to JAMB, suggests that the minimum score required for applicants to be admitted into the relevant institutions will be whatever was set as the benchmark.

The “National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS),” also known as the cut-off mark for 2023 admission to the country’s universities, has been approved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and stakeholders in tertiary education.

The benchmarks of 140 for universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education were decided upon during the 2023 annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, which was held on Saturday in Abuja.

Following recommendations from the heads of institutions, the policy meeting, presided over by Andrew Adejoh, Federal Ministry of Education’s Permanent Secretary, made the choice.

Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of JAMB, stated that although the meeting determines the minimum point, “institutions have the liberty to raise their individual minimum cutoff marks higher than the agreed benchmark.”

what it mean is that “Whatever we decide here will be the minimum. Nobody can descend below it, Mr. Oloyede said.