People wanting to get into Nigerian universities and colleges can now relax because the 2024 meeting for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination (JAMB) is scheduled for Thursday.
This important meeting starts the yearly admission process for higher education institutions. It includes setting the lowest scores needed for admission. The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, will lead the meeting. JAMB announced the meeting in their weekly news update on Monday.
This year’s event will also include the National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit Award (NATAP-M Awards), where the top winner will get N500 million, and other winners will share N250 million in prizes.
The policy meeting, usually attended by university vice-chancellors, polytechnic rectors, monotechnic heads, innovation enterprise institute leaders, and college of education provosts, will review and approve the guidelines for the 2024 admission process.
We will look at how the 2023 admissions went and examine the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. “The lowest scores for admission, based on what each institution submits, will be set at the meeting. This is not a ‘cut-off mark’ as people often think, but a minimum score that all institutions must meet or exceed.
The decisions made during the meeting, led by the Minister of Education, become the rules for admissions. These are collective decisions, not just JAMB’s alone. No institution can start admitting students until after the policy meeting, as the rules for the year’s admissions are set during this meeting and endorsed by the Minister of Education.
