The 2025 JAMB policy meeting to determine the cut-off mark and other modalities for the 2025/2026 admission exercise has been scheduled to hold today. The meeting will be held at Bola Ahmed Tinubu Internatinal Conference Centre Abuja. Attendance is strictly by invitation but the live events can be followed via JAMB’s social media platforms.

[UPDATE] JAMB has pegged 150 as a cut-off mark for admission into universities. The board also fixed 100 as the minimum cut-off point mark for admission into polytechnics and colleges of education while admission into Colleges of Nursing Sciences was fixed at 140. JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede announced this on Tuesday in Abuja at the 2025 JAMB Policy meeting

The meeting is expected to be chaired by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu with all heads of tertiary institutions in attendance.

Apart from the announcement of the minimum admission cut-off, the meeting will chart policy directions for the nation’s tertiary institutions, set admission guidelines for 2025, and make a holistic review of application statistics, performance, decide concessional and acceptable minimum admissions standards to be applied in all admissions to be undertaken by all tertiary institutions in Nigeria as well as evaluate the 2024 admission exercise.