The 2024 admission cycle for Nigeria’s tertiary institutions is set to commence as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) prepares to hold its annual policy meeting on Thursday, July 18.
The meeting, chaired by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, will take place in Abuja and will officially authorize the start of this year’s admission process.
In a statement released in its weekly news bulletin, JAMB announced, “This year’s exercise will also feature the National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit Award, NATAP-M Awards, where the overall winner will receive N500 million, and other consolation winners will share N250 million collectively.”
The policy meeting, a crucial event in the education calendar, will see the attendance of vice-chancellors, rectors, provosts, and other key stakeholders from universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, innovation enterprise institutes, and colleges of education. It aims to review the performance of the 2023 admissions exercise and the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates’ results.
JAMB clarified, “The minimum admission scores, an aggregation of individual institutions’ submissions, will be approved at the meeting. This is not a cut-off mark, as often misconstrued, but a minimum score that no institution should go below.”
The guidelines established during this meeting, endorsed by the Minister of Education, will serve as the regulatory framework for the 2024 admission exercise. JAMB emphasized that no institution is permitted to begin the admission process until after the policy meeting, stating, “The decisions made at the meeting form the guiding norms for admission and are a collective decision, not solely that of JAMB. Any institution that violates these norms will face sanctions.”
