THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday unveiled the cut-off marks 2019/2020 admission into tertiary institutions in the country.
The cut-off marks were approved at the 19th policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions in Nigeria in Gbongan, Osun State.
During the meeting, 160 was approved as minimum score for admission seekers into public universities while 140 was approved for private universities.
The policy meeting, which was presided over by the JAMB registrar, Isaq Oloyede, also approved 120 cut-off marks for public polytechnics and 110 for private polytechnics for admission seekers.
For colleges of education, 100 and above was approved as the cut-off marks.
The meeting had in attendance Vice Chancellors of universities, Rectors of Polytechnics and Provost of colleges of education.
It also approved December 19, 2019 for close of admission into public universities and February, 15, 2020 for private universities.
Oloyede, however, said that admission into all universities would be conducted on Central Admission Processing System.
According to him, JAMB is not responsible for the fixing of cut-off marks for tertiary institutions but rather a consensus between the institutions and stakeholders at the policy meeting.
Oloyede said institutions cannot fix cut-off marks below what the stakeholders decided at the policy meeting.
In his remarks, Joel Ojo, Director of tertiary institutions, Federal Ministry of Education, who represented Minister of Education, said the outcome of the recent investigation of the UTME registration of candidates carried out by the JAMB Admissions was a pointer that the examination industry requires a review.
Ojo said JAMB Policy Meeting remains the acceptable forum where plans and programmes for admissions are discussed and approved to guide the placement of qualified candidates to tertiary institutions.
