The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities at 150 for the 2025 academic session.
The decision was announced during the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions held on Tuesday at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.
According to the board, stakeholders—including heads of tertiary institutions—agreed on the new benchmarks: 150 for universities, 140 for colleges of nursing, and 100 each for polytechnics, colleges of education, and colleges of agriculture.
“The minimum admissible scores for admissions for the next academic session have been fixed at 150 for universities, 100 for polytechnics, 100 for colleges of education, and 140 for colleges of nursing sciences by the stakeholders (Heads of Tertiary Institutions),” JAMB posted on its official X handle (formerly Twitter).
The annual policy meeting serves as a platform to determine admission guidelines and criteria across tertiary institutions in the country.