JAMB admission 2024/2025 academic session deadline for all national tertiary institutions has yet to be set for public universities, private universities, and all IEIs, polytechnics, and colleges of education. However, all institutions are expected to close admission before the commencement of 2025 UTME.
Every tertiary institution in Nigeria has a closing date for admission. This date is always after the merit and other lists have been released. How soon it will be will depend on when the school conducts its PUTME. For instance, if a school conducts PUTME around November, the admission deadline will likely be around January. However, as mentioned above, the officially approved date by JAMB for all schools to end the 2024/2025 admission has yet to be disclosed. Still, schools are expected to conclude the admission process before the commencement of 2025 UTME. This is to let applicants know where they stand early and can partake of the UTME if they wish.
Some universities or polytechnics will still offer admission to candidates before the end of January 2025. So, for now, there is no fixed date.
Leaders of the institutions might have agreed without disclosure when the first and second-choice admission exercise would start, and the deadline might have been communicated to different institutions. But 2024 admission won’t be on when JAMB has started selling 2025 UTME.
Instructions set for admission
- JAMB & Tertiary Institutions are to ensure that Admissions periods are sacrosanct and must be followed and adhered to
- 1st choice admissions must be done during the period earmarked for 1st choice
- Other choices must be processed during the timelines set out for them
- JAMB would communicate Admissions Programmes, Calendars & Timetables to Tertiary Institutions immediately after this Policy Meeting
- At the end of the 1st choice period, all candidates not admitted would be pulled out of the institutions’ platform on CAPS & be made available to other willing institutions
- Any candidate who has chosen an institution as 2nd, 3rd or 4th choice does not need any change of choice or payment to JAMB to be considered for admission during the period of the 2nd choice admission
