The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that the admission into tertiary institutions which began August 21, 2019 will end November 16 for public university and 15 February, 2020 for private university.
JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.
Benjamin said the period slated for the admission processes as agreed during a policy meeting with stakeholders on June 11, at Gbongan, Osun, remains sacrosanct.
According to him, the board has commenced the processes for admission for the 2019/2020 academic session in earnest.
Benjamin said: “The first choice admission for public universities commenced from Aug. 21 and will end on Nov. 16. “For private universities, it will be from Aug. 21, 2019, to Feb. 15, 2020.
“The second choice admission for public universities will be from Nov. 17 to Dec. 17,” he said. Benjamin told NAN that the projection for 2019 was to ensure that candidates utilised more available spaces unlike in 2018 when there were over 500,000 unutilised available spaces in all the tiers of tertiary institutions.
He said that this development was contrary to the general narrative that there were no access to tertiary institutions, with about 60 per cent of available spaces unutilised.
