The ninth Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria has approved one hundred and sixty and above as the national minimum benchmark for admission for the year 2019 into public universities.

The meeting held at Bola Babalakin Auditorium, Gbongan, Osun State, yesterday also approved one hundred and forty as minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score for admission into private universities.

For public polytechnic, one hundred and twenty UTME score was approved, while one hundred and ten score was also approved as the least score for admission into private polytechnic.