JAMB: 482,356 Candidates in Tight Race for 78,578 admission quota in medicine, pharmacy, Others

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it received 482,356 applications from candidates in the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) who want admission into the school of health sciences, to either study medicine, pharmacy or other related courses.

JAMB said there were 78,578 admission quota for medicine, pharmacy and other related courses, but so far, 43,558 candidates have been admitted in the 2022 admission exercise which is still ongoing.

It stated that in engineering, technology and environment faculties, 182,052, applications were received in the 2022 UTME for 68,896 available quota, and so far, 48,444 candidates have been admitted into the faculties.

The board also stated that in the faculty of law and legal studies, there are 8,307 available quota, but 104,955 applications were received from candidates in 2022 UTME, while 5,822 admissions have been offered to candidates.

In faculty of sciences, there were 263,794 applications for 141,397 available admission quota. However, 98,770 admissions have been offered to candidates.

JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, in a presentations at a policy meeting in Abuja, explained that education and agriculture faculties received applications that were far below the allocated admission quota.