10 Interesting Facts About JAMB UTME 2016 Application

Dec 12, 2016  JAMB Application


In the just concluded JAMB UTME, about 1.5 million candidates sat for it. Let's take a look at 10 interesting facts about JAMB UTME 2016 application.

  1. The number of institutions available to applicants is 613; 198 universities, 174 polytechnics, 136 colleges of education and 105 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institutes (IEI).
  2. The 3 most applied universities are University of Ilorin, University of Benin and Ahmadu Bello University.
  3. The 3 most applied polytechnics are Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Yaba College of Technology and Auchi Polytechnic.
  4. The 3 most applied colleges of education are Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education and Adeyemi College of Education.
  5. The only institution with zero applicant is Christopher University, Mowe.
  6. The 3 most applied university courses are Medicine and Surgery, Nursing/Nursing Science and Economics.
  7. The 3 most applied polytchnic courses are Science Laboratory, Mass Communication, and Business Administrative and Management.
  8. The 3 most applied NCE courses are Biology/Chemistry, Business Education and Biology/Integrated Science.
  9. The 3 most applied IEI courses are Computer Software Engineering Technology, Computer Studies and Computer Hardware Engineering/Technology.
  10. There are 689 university courses of which no one applied to 38 of them.

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