ONLY 704,000 Slot Available to be Admitted for 2013/2014

Tertiary institutions across the country has yesterday declared that they could only admit 704,000 students out of 1,735,720 candidates that registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

1,540,179 candidates had their results released as738,375 candidates have already crossed the 200 marks,even as 36,000 candidates that wrote computer-based tests (CBT) result statistics has not been declared.
This came as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and National Universities Commission, NUC, vowed to vet post-matriculation admissions.

The boards also debated the cut-off mark for this year’s admission be 180 for Universities and 150 for other awarding institutions nationwide, after a rowdy argument at the 4th Combined Policy Committee meeting held at NUC headquarters in Abuja yesterday.