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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday
pegged the minimum entry requirement for admissions into
Nigerian universities for the 2015/16 academic year at 180.
The entry requirements for polytechnics and Colleges of
Education, including national diploma awarding institutions in
admitting undergraduate students was put at a minimum of 150
points.
The decision for the cut-off point was arrived at in Abuja after the
sixth Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Degree, Nigeria
Certificate in Education, National Diploma and National Innovation
Diploma-awarding institutions.
Stakeholders at the meeting also agreed on the admission quota
for the 2015/16 academic year, approving a 60-40 ratio for
science and arts related programmes in all Universities, while a
ratio of 70-30 goes for technology and non-technology related
courses in the Polytechnics.
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of JAMB,Dibu Ojerinde
cautioned tertiary institutions against abusing admissions
regularization process, stressing that, “with effect from the current
academic session,the Board would sanction defaulters who seek
for regularisation of admissions.”
In a power-point presentation at the meeting, Ojerinde observed
that a total of 1,436,867 candidates, representing 97.38 percent
applied for degree awarding institutions as first choice preference.
While candidates course preference for National Certificate in
Education (NCE) stood at 18,341,representing 1.24 per cent.
The 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME)
cumulative performance statistics of candidates also released by
JAMB indicated that 455,639 candidates scored 200 and above.
Those who scored 190-199 stood at 207,720 while those below
160 were 122,091 candidates.
For the 2015 admission year, University of Ilorin topped the first
choice university for applicants with 7.12 per cent, this was
closely followed by University of Benin coming second with 4.83
per cent.
Federal Polytechnic, Offa topped most preferred polytechnic with
0.15 per cent, followed by Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot-
Osurua with 0.11 per cent.
Imo State had the highest candidates with a total of 104, 382. 332,
700 applicants applied for social sciences, 292,171 for law, while
27,915 applied for agriculture.
931,559 candidates who sat for 2015 met the cut off mark
announced for admission into various universities across the
country.
Further, about 1.4 million candidates scaled through the 150 cut
off mark for admission into various colleges of education,
polytechnics, and Innovation Diploma-awarding institutions in the
country, as approved by JAMB.
Also, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, MacJohn
Nwaobiala, lauded the Board for Computer-Based Test innovation,
noting that the federal government would continue to support the
examination agency to sustain the gains achieved so far.
According to Nwaobiala, all tertiary institutions must adhere
strictly to the admission guidelines and quota already approved
for the system to progress without hitches.