Admission to 2024 opens on Thursday, the day of the JAMB policy meeting.

This week marks the annual Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination, or JAMB, 2024 policy conference, setting the stage for admission to the country's postsecondary educational institutions.
The 2024 policy meeting will be chaired by Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, and will take place on Thursday, July 18, in Abuja. This year's admission will start this year, approved by the policy meeting.
"This year’s exercise will also feature 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 board said in its weekly news bulletin yesterday.


"The policy meeting, which is often attended by polytechnic rectors, vice chancellors of universities, The guidelines for the 2024 admission process will be reviewed and approved by provosts of colleges of education, innovation enterprise institutions, monotechnics, and other important stakeholders.

The results of the 2023 admissions process and the candidates' 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) performance will be reviewed during the conference.

"At the conference, the minimum admission scores—a total of the proposals from each individual institution—will be accepted.

"This is a minimum score that no institution should fall below, not a cut-off mark as is frequently misinterpreted. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB, is not the only body that makes choices about admissions; the decisions made during the meeting, which was presided over by the Minister of Education, also serve as guidelines.

It is not expected for any college to start the admissions process until after the policy meeting, since the rules governing the year's admissions process are decided upon there with the Minister of Education's approval.

"The meeting announces the start of the admissions process for the year and establishes the collective norms. Any institution that deviates from these norms will be subject to consequences."