The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has fixed minimum cut off marks for Nigeria’s tertiary institutions, cut off marks for universities set at 120 while polytechnics and colleges of education, 100.
However, institutions can raise their cut off marks for admission above the minimum set by JAMB.
Also, admissions into public degree awarding institutions for the 2017 UTME examination will end on January 15, 2018 while for private institutions, it ends on January 31, 2018.
Meanwhile, decisions on first choice candidates by universities will end on October 15, and second choice candidates will end on December 15; after which the remaining students will be available in the market place for other institutions till the January closing dates.
The Registrar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, however, appealed to heads of institutions not to charge more than N2,000 for admissions’ processes.