JAMB – Step To Step Admission Process That Candidates Must Follow

Many candidates fail to get admission to the universities of their choice not because they are not brilliant academically.

Usually the problem is ignorance, or failure to follow laid-down procedures by JAMB for admission.

For example, it is ignorance that makes somebody who scored high to fail to get admission whereas those who are low on scores but are wise, eventually get admitted.

As part of our support to aspirations candidates, we provide here today, step by step process of admission on the JAMB’s Central Admissions Processing Systems (CAPS)

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1. After successful completion of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and release of results, lists of Candidates are forwarded to their First Choice Institutions
2. JAMB thereafter requests all Institutions to use the Lists to determine their respective Cut off Marks and forward same to JAMB ahead of the Policy Meeting and programme (course).
3. JAMB receives and collates Individual Institution and programme (course) Cut Off Marks as determined by their respective Senate / Academic Board
4. . JAMB requires each Institution to reconfirm its Cut Off Marks and Sets the Cut Off Mark and other Institution specific parameters such as other Admissions Criteria (e.g. Post UTME Screening) and carrying capacity on CAPS.
5. Institutions download (from CAPS) details of Candidates that meet the Institution’s and programme’s Cut Off Mark and had selected them as First Choice Institutions.

JAMB additionally provides softcopy of the same information on CDs to Institutions

6. Awaiting Results Candidates upload their results to JAMB Portal
7. Institutions may begin conducting Post UTME Screenings for downloaded candidates
8. Results of Post UTME (where applicable) are uploaded to CAPS to obtain aggregate scores for the candidates
9. CAPS ranks and suggests candidates that meet the Institution’s Admissions Criteria as configured on the system by the Institution.
10. The Admissions Desk Officer of the Institution reviews the List of the Suggested Candidates and makes the decision as to which candidates to select for further processing.

The Admissions Desk Officer then generates a List of Proposed Candidates for review and approval of the Head of the Institution

11. The Head of the Institution reviews the List of Proposed Candidates as appropriates and pushes the List of Recommended Candidates to JAMB
12. JAMB generates a List of Provisional Admissions, and notifies Candidates to Accept / Reject Admissions
13. Candidate Accepts / Rejects Admission on the JAMB Portal or through USSD or Short Service Code within 72hours. If Candidate Accepts Provisional Admission, JAMB updates Admission Status and forwards List of Confirmed Admissions to the Institution
14. Candidate prints Admission Letter and Proceeds to the Institution for further internal Admission Processing
15. If Candidate Rejects Admission, s/he becomes available in the Market Place for further possible consideration for Admissions