JAMB Initiates 2024 Admission Process with Policy Meeting Set for Thursday

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that all preparations for the commencement of admission into tertiary institutions are now in place. In its weekly news bulletin published on X on Monday, JAMB also revealed that the 2024 edition of the annual policy meeting will be held this Thursday.

The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, will chair the 2024 policy meeting, scheduled for July 18 in Abuja. This meeting will authorize the start of this year’s admission process.

An exciting highlight of this year’s exercise is 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, which will be attended by vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics, innovation enterprise institutes, provosts of colleges of education, and other critical stakeholders, will consider and approve the guidelines for the 2024 admission exercise. It will review the performance of the 2023 admissions exercise and the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) performance of candidates. 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 bulletin clarifies. The decisions made at the meeting, chaired by the Minister of Education, form the guiding norms for admission and are a collective decision, not solely that of JAMB.

No institution is expected to commence the admission process until after the policy meeting, as the guidelines regulating the year’s admission exercise are determined at the meeting with the endorsement of the Minister of Education.

Stay tuned for more updates as JAMB continues to streamline and enhance the admission process for aspiring students.