Bayero University Kano (BUK) will admit about twenty five per cent of this year’s post-UTME candidates seeking admission into the institution.
Speaking in his office when he hosted the Kano Zonal Director of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday,the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello, said there was no point in raising the hope of students by inviting an outrageous number to write the examination knowing fully the limited admission carrying capacity of the institution.
According to him, many Universities have turned the post UTME as an avenue of revenue generation as a result, they make it wide open to all candidates who scored the JAMB requirements but forgetting that the NUC requirement of it admission quota cannot accommodate even one tenth of the number of students who sat for the Post UTME.
“How could a university whose admission carrying capacity is not more than 5,000 invite over 60,000 to sit for the post UTME?” he asked.
Prof. Bello further explained that over 20,000 candidates out of the several thousands who have chosen BUK as their first choice have scored the minimum 180 points in their JAMB UTME.
The Vice Chancellor said all those who sat and passed the minimum PUTME points of 160 would be automatically admitted, but not necessarily the course of their choice.
He explained that over 700 out of those that applied for MBBS have all passed the exams, but the admission capacity for the programme was just 130, therefore the remaining candidates would be sent to other science related courses and this applies to all programmes.
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