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A few years ago it was unthinkable but now a JAMB score of 120 could legitimately get you admitted into a university

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday crashed the admission cut-off marks into universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education in the country from 180 to as low as 120 and 100.
The Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed in Abuja during the Combined Policy Meeting on 2017 admissions, pegged the minimum
score for degree programs at 120, while that of polytechnics and colleges of education was put at 100.
Saying that tertiary institutions are at liberty to rejig the benchmarks subject to the decisions of their Senate and academic boards, Oloyede stressed that no institution was expected to go below the cut-off marks.

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