Following the 19th Policy Meeting of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), the agency has pegged the score of 160 as the cutoff mark for admissions to tertiary institutions in 2019. The approved score is the national minimum benchmark for admission into public universities.
The meeting which was held at the Bola Babalakin Auditorium, Gbongan, Osun State, also approved 140 as minimum UTME score for admission into private universities. For public polytechnic, 120 UTME scores were approved, while 110 scores were approved as the least score for admission into private polytechnic.