The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday announced that candidates seeking admission into Colleges of Education and Agriculture for education programmes and agriculture-related non-engineering courses will no longer be required to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
JAMB announced this in a post on its X handle during its ongoing policy meeting on 2026 admissions.
“Candidates seeking admissions into Education Programmes and Agriculture non-Engineering Courses are now exempted from UTME,” the board wrote on X.
The development comes on the heels of the Nigerian government announcing the scrapping of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, as a requirement for admission into Colleges of Education.
The federal government said candidates seeking admission into the Nigeria Certificate in Education, NCE, programmes, will no longer be required to sit for UTME.
