The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday approved 140 as the national minimum cut-off mark for admission into public universities for this year 2022.
The decision was arrived at during the ongoing Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in the country.
Meanwhile, a minimum score of 100 has been approved as admission cut-off into Nigeria’s public Polytechnics, Monotecnics, and colleges of Education.
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB’s Registrar, who announced the cut-off said every institution has the right to fix its cut-off mark even up to 220 but no one would be allowed to go less than the agreed minimum marks of 100 for Colleges of Education, 100 for Polytechnics and 140 for Universities.
He further revealed that a total of 378,639 out of the 1,761,338 who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) scored 200 and above.
The figure represents 21% of the total figure of candidates who wrote the examination between April and May 2022.