The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has approved 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2025 admission exercise.
The decision was reached on Monday during the board’s annual policy meeting on admissions held in Abuja, where stakeholders across the tertiary education sector gathered to deliberate on admission guidelines for the new academic session.
Under the new arrangement, universities across the country are not allowed to admit candidates who score below 150 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
However, individual institutions still have the freedom to set higher cut-off marks depending on their admission requirements and competitiveness.
The approved score, officially referred to as the National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score, was adopted after consultations and voting by vice-chancellors, rectors, provosts and other heads of tertiary institutions.
Last year, universities also adopted 150 as the minimum benchmark, while polytechnics and colleges of education retained 100 as their admission threshold.
The policy meeting is organised yearly by JAMB to determine admission standards and guidelines for tertiary institutions across the country.
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