Nigeria, July 8 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the tertiary education stakeholders have approved the National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS), also known as the cut-off point for 2024 admission into the nation's universities.

At this year's annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions held in Abuja on Tuesday, the meeting adopted 150 as the benchmark for admission into universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education. The meeting adopted 140 for Colleges of Nursing across the country. This means that no tertiary institutions should admit students who score below the approved scores, while institutions can still fix higher cut-off marks for their applicants.

Last year, 140...