The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 150 as the minimum cut-off score for admission into universities across Nigeria for the 2025/2026 academic session.
This decision was reached during the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions, held on Tuesday at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja. According to a post shared on JAMB’s official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the admission benchmark was set in agreement with vice-chancellors, provosts, and rectors of tertiary institutions.
For other categories of institutions, the cut-off marks were fixed as follows:
140 for colleges of nursing sciences
100 for polytechnics
100 for colleges of education
100 for colleges of agriculture
JAMB clarified that these thresholds represent the minimum scores required for candidates to be considered for admission during the upcoming academic session.
This update comes months after the Board acknowledged technical issues that disrupted the conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). As a result, JAMB had to organize a supplementary exam for affected candidates nationwide.
