The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that it will on Monday, May 11, 2026, hold its 2026 Policy Meeting, where key decisions on admissions into tertiary institutions across the country will be considered, including the approval of minimum cut-off marks for the 2026 admission exercise.
The Board in a statement issued on Sunday by its Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, said the meeting, which will be chaired by the Minister of Education, will bring together stakeholders across the education sector to determine guidelines for the 2026 admission exercise into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
According to the statement, the session will also review and adopt admission benchmarks, including what it described as “the determination of the minimum tolerable scores for admissions,” which traditionally guide entry requirements into universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.
The Board also disclosed that the Meeting will also host a delegation from Sierra Leone, including the country’s Deputy Minister of Education, Sarjoh Kamara, alongside two vice-chancellors — Prof. Edwin Momoh of Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology and Prof. Bashiru Koroma of Njala University.
The Sierra Leonean officials, the statement explained, are in Nigeria to “understudy the nation’s centralised admission system” as their country considers establishing a similar body to streamline its own tertiary admissions process.
