The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2025 academic session.
Naijaonpoint reports that the decision was announced on Tuesday during the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions, which was held at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.
The meeting brought together stakeholders across the tertiary education spectrum, including vice-chancellors, provosts, rectors, and regulatory agencies.
According to a post shared by JAMB via its official 𝕏 handle, stakeholders reached a consensus to fix the minimum scores for other institutions as follows:
140 for colleges of nursing sciences
100 for polytechnics
100 for colleges of education
100 for 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),” the Board stated.
In a related development, JAMB has reaffirmed that the minimum age for admission into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions remains 16 years.
Speaking at the event, the Board disclosed that the age requirement is enforced via the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) and even accommodates candidates who will turn 16 by August 31, 2025.
However, JAMB expressed concern over what it described as “illegal backdoor admissions” conducted by some institutions.
JAMB said in a statement issued at the meeting, “The Board implemented the 16-year admissible age on its CAPS platform and even bent backwards to accommodate candidates who would be 16 as of 31st August 2025.
“However, some institutions admitted candidates who were not up to the admissible age of 16 outside CAPS and even collected huge sums of money from them as tuition fees.”