The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2025/2026 academic session. The decision was reached today, July 8, during the JAMB 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions in Abuja.
The meeting brought together stakeholders from federal and state ministries of education, heads of tertiary institutions, and other relevant agencies.
In addition to the university benchmark, JAMB announced that the minimum cut-off mark for colleges of nursing will be 140, while colleges of agriculture and colleges of education will have a cut-off mark of 100.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, had earlier announced that the minimum age for entry into tertiary institutions is 16 years.
