JAMB sets 150 as minimum cut-off mark for 2025 university admissions

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.

This decision was reached on Tuesday at the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions, which took place at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.

In a post shared via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle, JAMB announced the agreed minimum scores for other tertiary institutions: 140 for colleges of nursing sciences, 100 for polytechnics, and 100 for colleges of education and agriculture.

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“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),” JAMB wrote on its X handle.

More updates are expected to follow.