Federal University Gusau sets 170 as cut-off mark for admission

Federal University Gusau
Federal University Gusau

The Federal University Gusau has announced 170 as minimum mark for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, cut-off marks for admission into the university for the 2017/2018 academic session.

The Information Officer of the university, Umar Usman, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Gusau on Saturday.

Mr. Usman said that the university management had arrived at the decision to set 170 as minimum cut-off marks after getting statistics on the candidates who applied for admission into the institution.

The Information Officer added that the 170 was arrived at after getting a statistic that most of the candidates who applied for admission into the University scored 120 and above in their JAMB exams.

He said the university was only given a quota to admit 1,500 students through JAMB and Direct Entry for the coming academic session.

According to him, over 5,000 applicants applied for admission into the University.

“If we will stick to the 120-minimum cut off marks given by the JAMB, majority of applicants who are going to attend the University’s aptitude test for the admission will not get it.

“We decided to minimize the difficulty by raising our points to 170 so that most of those that will pay for post UTME in the university will get the admission,” he said.

He noted that the University also runs a pre-degree programme in Science, Art and Social Science based courses which would also be considered in the admission to make up the 1, 500 required students for the session.

Mr. Usman said the university is soliciting more assistance from well-to-do individuals and private organisations to provide more infrastructure that would make JAMB increase the quota given to the institution.

He said that for the admission quota to be increased there must be adequate structures and facilities in place.

NAN reports that JAMB had on Tuesday announced a minimum 120 as cut-off marks for admission into Nigerian Universities for the 2017/2018 session while 100 marks was for Colleges of Education and Polytechnics.

(NAN)

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  • JOHN

    Any university that set their cut off mark for admission below 200 has just admitted that the standard of that university is very low. Employers are all watching and would be reluctant to employ the products of such institution. Parents must advise themselves not to send their children to such university because it will a challenge when they will not be able to confidently compete.

  • emmanuel

    We know what will happen here. They will admit their people with the usual 2 marks and insist that others from the South would have to be admitted with 170.
    Where will they get those who scored 120 from, if not Southerners?
    Buhari appointed a bigot as JAMB head to further his poor education agenda