JAMB Lists Universities That Won’t Accept Cut-off Marks Below 180: About 51 degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria will not admit candidates who scored below 180 in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for any programme.

This is according to a document from the Joint Admissions Matriculation Examination (JAMB), which analysed the acceptable UTME scores by the institutions.

MEDIANGR.COM.NG reported how JAMB announced 160 as the official (minimum) cut off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2024/2025 academic session.

The decision was reached through a voting system but some universities said they will not go below 180 UTME scores as their cut-off mark.

Out of 51 institutions who decided not to go below 180, only one said its minimum cut-off mark is 210 while nine institutions said their minimum cut-off mark is 200.

Also, one university pegged its own minimum at 190 while 40 institutions fixed their minimum at 180.

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JAMB Lists Universities That Won’t Accept Cut-off Marks Below 180.

Institutions that won’t accept less than 200

Pan- Atlantic University –210
Covenant University — 200
Obafemi Awolowo University – 200
University of Ibadan — 200
Seminary of All Saints ( Affiliated to University of Benin)–200
University of Benin – 200
Bigard Memorial Seminary (Affiliated to University of Ibadan) –200
University of Lagos –200
Immanuel College of Theology and Christian Education (Affiliated to University of Ibadan)—200
St. Peter and Paul Seminary — 200

Institutions that won’t accept less than 190

Lagos State University —-190

Institutions that won’t accept less than 180

Nigerian Army University – 180
Ekiti State University —180
Afe Babalola University—180
Baptist College Of Theology (Affl To Ambrose Alli Uni) –180
Anchor University, Ayobo —180
Pamo University Of Medical Science—180
Redeemers University, Osun State—180
Landmark University —- 180
Alex Ekwueme Federal University—180
University Of Ilorin, Ilorin—180
University Of Jos —- 180
Federal University—180
University Of Abuja— 180
Bayero University—180
Ahmadu Bello University—180
Augustine University —180
Rivers State University —180
Spiritan Int’l School Of Theology (Affl To Univ Of Nig, Nsukka) –180
Adekunle Ajasin University –180
Imo State University –180
Nigerian Police Academy –180
Spiritan School Of Philosophy—180
University Of Port-Harcourt – 180
Ladoke Akintola University Of Technology –180
Claretian Institute Of Philosophy (Affl To Imo State University)—180
Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Kaduna –180
Benue State University –180
Seat Of Wisdom Seminary (Affl To Imo State University) –180
Ondo State University Of Science and Technology –180
Olabisi Onabanjo University –180
Federal University Of Agriculture, Abeokuta –180
Bayelsa Medical University –180
Federal University Of Technology, Imo state –180
Federal University Of Technology, Akure –180
University Of Nigeria Nsuka -180
Federal University Of Petroleum Resources –180
Ondo State University Of Medical Sciences —180
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University—-180
University Of Uyo —180
Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, 180

Breakdown

There are 182-degree awarding institutions in Nigeria, 10 of these said their minimum cut-off mark is 200 and above, 11 institutions said theirs will remain at 190 and above.

About 51 institutions said their cut-off mark is fixed at 180 and above. Also, 64 institutions’ cut-off mark will be from 170 and above. One hundred and twelve (112) institutions said their cut-off mark is pegged at 160 and above while 69 said their cut-off mark is 160 and below.

No uniform minimum score

The spokesperson of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Monday said there is “no uniform UTME minimum score for admission” as each institution determines and submits to JAMB its minimum UTME score “after having analysed the UTME performances of its applicants against its available quota.”

“There is a layer of misconceptions on what is generally described as uniform minimum national UTME score for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. For long, many candidates and some members of the general public have come under the erroneous impression that there is a minimum national UTME score, which they also refer to as cut off point,” he said.

According to him, the UTME score is not the sole determinant of placement of candidates into tertiary institutions.

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“The undue attention to the so-called national minimum UTME score (UTME cut off point) is a major source of failure of many ill-informed candidates who assumed that they have finally attained the benchmark having achieved the so-called minimum national score or cut off point for admission,” he said.

He said decisions at the annual Policy Meeting on Admission does not reduce the minimum prescription of the institutions ” “except the few institutions whose submitted minimum UTME- scores fall below what the Policy Meeting considers as the minimum score acceptable.”

“UTME score is just one of the two or three scores that are generally added together to obtain the eventual aggregate score and ranking of the candidates,” he said.

The 2024 UTME examination started on March 14 and ended March 21 in its accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) centres nationwide. A total number of 1,949,983 candidates wrote the 2024 UTME examination.

JAMB Lists Universities That Won’t Accept Cut-off Marks Below 180