The Federal University Gusau
(FUGUS) 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, Malam Umar Usman disclosed this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau on Saturday.
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 run 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.
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 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
.
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