The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and tertiary education stakeholders have approved the minimum UTME scores for 2026 admissions into Nigerian universities, polytechnics, and colleges of nursing.
During this year’s annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions held in Abuja on Monday, the participants adopted 150 as the benchmark for admission into universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education.
The meeting adopted 150 for Colleges of Nursing across the country.
Earlier, the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced that from this year, applicants to Colleges of Education no longer need UTME for admission.
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The decision was adopted following a vote by the heads of the institutions. The Vice-chancellors voted for the benchmarks for universities and rectors of polytechnics.
The voting session was moderated by the education minister, Mr Alausa and JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, a professor.
While some universities have their minimum admissible UTME score set as high as 220, no university can admit students below the agreed 150.
