The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it registered a total of 1,837,011 candidates registered for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (JAMB) and Direct Entry (DE).
Its registration ended on Saturday 26th March, 2022, according to the examination body.
This year’s application for admission to tertiary institutions in Nigeria for the 2022/2023 academic session commenced from Saturday, 19 February, 2022.
A total of 1,338,687 candidates registered for the 2021 UTME
The Board registered more than 2.1 million candidates for the 2020 UTME.
For the 2019 examination, it recorded over 1.8 million candidates, while the total number of applications received in 2018 was 1,653,127 as against 1,722,269 applications received in 2017.
