The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Sunday released the admission statistics of Nigerian tertiary institutions for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, showing that 443,624
candidates out of a total 1,662,762 candidates got admission into universities.
The board, which has now closed admission for 2018, said the 443,624 candidates were the spaces filled across the universities. The same was for polytechnics, which had a total quota of 134,526 spaces but could only fill 81,791, while the colleges had 391,615 spaces but admitted 59,498 candidates.According to the National Universities Commission, Nigeria has a total of 174 universities – 43 federal universities, 52 state universities and 79 private universities.
Speaking on the admission spaces not utilised, the JAMB Head of Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, told our correspondent in an interview that the admission table showed that universities had the capacity to admit more but could not fill the spaces because the candidates did not meet the requirements.
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