JAMB Gives Out Cut-Off Marks For Varsities, Others

By Olamilekan Alani

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 160 and above at the 20^th policy meeting to admit tertiary institution in Nigeria as the benchmark for the 2020 into public universities .

For public polytechnic, 120 UTME score was approved, while 100 was approved for Colleges of Education, innovative enterprises and institutes.

The meeting held virtually, on Tuesday, also approved 140 as minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score for admission into private universities

During the meeting, JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, urged tertiary institution heads not to increase admission screening charges above N2000.