2024 Admission: Points to note from JAMB policy meeting

The Joint Admission and Matriculatin Board held the 2024 admission policy to meeting on the 18th July, 2024.

Below are the decisions made at the meeting.

Age Requirement for Admission this year is 16 years. However, it will be 18 years as from 2025.

JAMB set 140 as the minimum score for university admissions, and 100 for admission into Colleges of Nursing, Colleges of Education, and Polytechnics. This cutoff is the minimum score and each institution can choose their own cutoffs.

There will be no JAMB original result slip this year. JAMB stressed that it will be their sole responsibility to provide any school that requests the applicants’ JAMB score. This is to prevent falsification of results by applicants. As to if there will be change of plans, or if JAMB will provide an alternative way for those with SIM card issues, this cannot be said at the moment. As such, everyone is expected to have their JAMB registered SIMs active as this is the only option of checking the results for now.

All institutions can now commence their admissions for this year. This does not mean they will start immediately. Each school decides when to release their Post UTME/screening form, depending on their academic calendar. *If you don’t want to miss out, always check and read update here.*

Admission this year will also be accepted through SMS only. This again emphasizes the need for everyone to have their JAMB registered SIM cards active. Again, as to if there will be an alternative way for those who have SIM card issues, this cannot be said at this moment.*

The Post UTME/screening form fee for all schools has been pegged at N2,000 ONLY. This means no Institution should charge above N2,000 for their Post UTME/screening form.

All Admissions – UTME, DE, regular, Part-time, others – must be conducted through JAMB alone. As such, watch out and don’t fall victim of those who claim to offer you help to bypass the normal processes of Admission. This is simply telling you, don’t fall victim of fake Admissions.*

Some candidates were not admitted last year due to various reasons – wrong subject combinations, no O level result uploaded on the JAMB portal, others. As such, ensure your subject combination corresponds with your course. More importantly, ensure that your O-level results are available on the JAMB portal. Check the comment section on how to confirm your O-level results on the JAMB portal.

There is no detailed update on other services such as the UTME conversion to DE. However, this is expected to commence soon. You’ll be updated here as things play out.

Finally, it’s again important to note that the JAMB portal is yet to reflect the details for this year. It’s therefore normal to find most of your details blank for now.

Upload of O-level results is still ongoing. Ensure to do this NOW or whenever your results are ready.

Change of Course/Institution is ongoing and will be on for as long as this year’s year’s Admission process is on.