JAMB to Announce 2026 UTME Cut-Off Marks at Monday Policy Meeting

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will convene its 2026 Policy Meeting on Monday, where stakeholders are expected to determine the minimum cut-off marks for admissions into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions for the 2026 academic session.

According to a statement released Sunday by the Board’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, the meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Education and will bring together key players across the education sector to establish guidelines for the upcoming admission exercise.

The session will review and adopt admission benchmarks, including what the Board described as the determination of minimum tolerable scores for admissions into universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.

A delegation from Sierra Leone, comprising the country’s Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Sarjoh Aziz Kamara, and two vice-chancellors, will also attend the meeting. The team is visiting Nigeria to study the nation’s centralised admission system as Sierra Leone considers establishing a similar body to manage its tertiary admissions process.

The delegation has already undergone an orientation on JAMB’s examination and admission procedures at the Board’s headquarters in Bwari. During the policy meeting, they are expected to observe how stakeholders participate in Nigeria’s coordinated admission value chain.

The visiting officials expressed appreciation to JAMB, noting that surging admission demand in Sierra Leone has created significant challenges, and the Nigerian model offers practical solutions to issues they have long sought to address.

The Board reaffirmed its role in the education system, stating that the admission structure remains central to tertiary placement in Nigeria.