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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2026 academic session, while Polytechnics are set at 100 and Colleges of Nursing at 150.
The decision was reached on Monday at the ongoing 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions in Abuja, according to information from the meeting.
The Heads of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria had unanimously agreed that the Minimum Admissible Scores for admissions into Universities should be 150, Colleges of Nursing, 150, and Polytechnics, 100.
— JAMB (@JAMBHQ) May 11, 2026
The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, and stakeholders from various tertiary institutions attended the meeting.
Earlier, at the same policy meeting, JAMB announced that candidates seeking admission into Education programmes and Agriculture non-Engineering courses are now exempted from the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Alausa warned that any admission conducted outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) is illegal and will not be recognised.
“Let me reiterate, without equivocation, that admissions conducted outside this framework are illegal and will not be recognised,” Alausa said.
He warned that institutions that continued to bypass the CAPS platform risked severe consequences.
“The era in which institutions operated parallel admission systems, often to the detriment of deserving candidates, must come to an end,” he added.
More details later.
