The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and tertiary education stakeholders have released the cut-off mark for 2023 admission into the nation’s universities.
According to JAMB, the benchmark for 2023 exams for universities is 140.
Going further, it added 100 scores is for polytechnics and colleges of education.
According to the board, these were arrived at during the 2023 annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, which was held in Abuja on Saturday.
Politics Nigeria reports that the Permanent Secretary of, the Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew Adejoh chaired the policy meeting.
The heads of institutions recommended the scores.
Speaking on the benchmark, JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, said the minimum criterion is not a single-suit-fits-all for all institutions, noting that though the meeting decides the minimum point, “institutions have the liberty to raise their minimum points higher than the agreed benchmark.”
He said:
“Anything we decide here will become the minimum. What it means is that nobody can go below it.”
