JAMB Explains Why Candidates Can No Longer Apply To Two Public Universities

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board
(JAMB) has disclosed why it restricted
candidates from choosing two public
universities during the 2017 online
registration.
Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media
and Information, told PREMIUM TIMES on
Saturday that the choice of public
universities was restricted to one but
candidates can choose as many colleges of
education and polytechnics as they want.
The new measure by the board means that
candidates may select a public university
and a private university, but not two public
universities.

The new update was revealed by JAMB via its
official twitter handle @JambHQ onFriday.It
reads: “candidates can select NCE as their
choice up to three times I.e 1st choice, 2nd
choice and 3rd choice.“But they are not
allowed to select two public universities as
choices. If candidates select a public university
as their degree awarding choices, they are
allowed to select a private university as
another choice.”Mr. Benjamin told PREMIUM
TIMES that the Board took the restrictions
because candidates hardly get admissions into
their second and third choice universities.“Yes
we restricted the choice to one but candidates
can choose as many colleges or polytechnics,”
he said.“We discovered it was of no use
choosing a university as second choice when in
actual sense they can’t even accommodate their
first choices,” the JAMB official said.

Candidates have however cried foul over this
new information as they lamented that the
board is indirectly enforcing the choice of
private university on them.

The candidates also lamented due to the huge
sum paid as school fees in private universities
stating that they are not affordable by most
Nigerian parents.“The fees nko? Jamb go help
the students pay the fees for the private
universities? You can’t force somebody to
attend private universities,” a Twitter user,
Robinson said.