The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that over 500,000 admission spaces, representing 45.48 per cent of the total admission quota, in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) were not used by candidates.
The board said in its policy document that only 612,557 candidates secured admission, out of 1.12 million admission spaces in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in the country in 2019. This represents about 54 per cent of the total admission space for the year.
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The board explained that out of the total 1,123,514 spaces in the nation’s higher institutions, 560,613 was allocated to all degree-awarding institutions, 403,225 to institutions awarding National Certificate Examination, 145,394 to institutions awarding National Diploma and 14,282 to National Innovative Diploma (NID) awarding institutions.
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Out of the 560,613 allocated to universities, only 444,947 were used, 69,810 out of the 403,225 allocated to NCE was used, 96,423 candidates got admission out of the 145,394 allocation given to ND awarding institutions while only 1,377 candidates also got admission out of the 14,282 allocation given to NID institutions.
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