The federal government, in consultation with the Joint
Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), has concluded that the cut-off mark
for the 2014 admissions into Universities is 180, while that that for
Polytechnics and Colleges of Education(COE) is 150.
The cut-off points were arrived at yesterday after the 5th Combined Policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions held at the National Universities Commission (NUC).
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike who declared the meeting open, frowned at the inability of most tertiary institutions to utilise their admission quota.
Wike however said in view of efforts to boost access, institutions which fail to utilise their admission quota for 2014 will be sanctioned.
“This disservice to the Nigeria child is totally unacceptable. In line with efforts of the federal government to improve access, let me urge you all to with effect from today, work assiduously to ensure that all admission spaces in your institutions for the current year are fully utilised within the approved time frame,” he stated.
Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Dibu Ojerinde, in his presentation said after the conduct of the 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) candidates who applied for degree awarding institutions or universities totalled 1,584,348 representing 97.070, NCE applicants totalled 25,767 representing 1.579, ND a patlry 22,072 representing 1.349 while NID had just 46 representing 0.003.
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