Just In: JAMB Approves Cut-Off Marks For Uni, Polytechnics

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Thursday, approved cut-off marks for universities and polytechnics nationwide.

The decision was taken after a session that comprises officials from JAMB, the Ministry of Education, the National Universities Commission, and the National Board for Technical Education among others.

For the polytechnics, 120 cut-off mark was approved while 140 was approved for universities.

The board also approved 100 as the minimum cut-off for Colleges of Education.

Professor Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB’s Registrar, who announced the cut-off said every institution has the right to fix its cut-off mark even up to 220 but no one would be allowed to go less than the agreed minimum marks of 100 for Colleges of Education, 100 for Polytechnics and 140 for Universities.

He further revealed that a total of 378,639 of the 1,761,338 who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) scored 200 and above.