These are some of the universities that failed to comply with the 2012/2013 UTME cut off which was 180 for universities and 160 for polythecnics and college of education:> Lagos State University (LASU) – 200
> University of Benin (UNIBEN) – 200
> Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) – 200
> Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) – 200
> University of Ilorin, UNILORIN – 200 (240 for Medicine)
> University of Lagos (UNILAG) – 200
> Federal University of Technology FUT, Minna – 190
The big question is will these institutions comply with this year's cut-off marks which is150 for Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and other degree-awarding institutions while 180 is for federal universities
Tertiary
institutions across the country, yesterday, declared that they could
only admit 704,000 students out of more than 740,000 candidates who are
qualified to be given admission for the 2013/2014 academic year having
scored 200 and above.
Out of
the 1,735,720 candidates that registered for this year’s Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, 1,540,179 candidates had their
results released as 738,375 candidates have already crossed the 200
marks bar, even as the results of the 36,000 candidates that wrote
computer-based tests have not been made public.
This
came as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and National
Universities Commission, NUC, vowed to vet post-matriculation
admissions.
The
institutions also debated the cut-off mark for this year’s admission
after a rowdy argument at the 4th Combined Policy Committee meeting held
at NUC headquarters in Abuja.
Cut-off marks reviewed
They
arrived at 180 for degree-awarding institutions, while the cut-off mark
for non-degree awarding institutions was pegged at 150 from 160 to
encourage candidates to opt for polytechnics and colleges of education.
JAMB
Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, made the disclosures, yesterday, at the
NUC headquarters, stressing that the admission capacity of tertiary
institutions in the country had been raised to 704,000, from the initial
500,000.
Ojerinde
said the board and NUC had to deal with the problem of admission of
excess students for which the Federal Government was often pushed into a
tight corner.
Admission deadline
He
warned the institutions to stick to the deadline of October 31 for
admission of students and cautioned that any student admitted outside
the deadline would not graduate from the institutions.
He
said: “I wish to remind you formally that all admissions will come to an
end by October 31. All institutions are hereby called upon to adhere
strictly to this date as late submissions will not be entertained.
“We
have discovered that some universities and other institutions comply
with admission deadline, while some others do not comply and up till
date they are still admitting students.”
He
said that the scores of 180 and 160 were adopted last year as cut-off
point, but was thrown open for institutions to agree on before adoption
in the 2013/2014 year.
However,
the debate on the cut-off for this year generated heated argument, but
the institutions unanimously agreed to peg the cut-off mark at 180 for
universities and 150 for non-degree awarding institutions.
Reasons for marks review
The
institutions based their argument on the graph shown to them by JAMB,
indicating that candidates preferred universities to polytechnics and
colleges of education.
They
argued that to encourage candidates to seek admissions in polytechnics
and colleges of education, there was need to bring down the cut-off mark
to 150 for non-degree awarding institutions.
Ojerinde
reminded the institutions of the mandatory guidelines on admission,
pegging criteria for merit at 45 percent, catchment, 35 and
educationally less-developed states, ELDS, 20 for Federal
Government-owned institutions.
For state-owned institutions, merit was put at 40 percent, catchment 40 and ELDS 20.