2024 UTME: No increase in registration fees, but we allow CBT centers charge more – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied reports suggesting increase in registration fees for next year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The Examination body insisted that registration fees remain N3500 as it has been since 2018.

This was stated in a press statement released by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, on Wednesday, December 20, 2023.

He stated that there is no iota of truth in reports that the body had increased the registration fees to N7,700 and that the cost of registration remains N3,500.

“The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been drawn to several publications in recent times insinuating that the Board has increased its examination registration fee.”

“This is far from the truth as the cost of obtaining the Board’s UTME application documents remains N3,500, which has been the cost of its application documents since it was brought down from N5000 in 2018. Therefore, the Board wishes to state that the cost of application documents price has not been increased in spite of the prevailing economic reality in the country which has also affected the cost of the Board’s operations,” he said.

Dr Fabian added that the body had been doing all within its powers to ensure that candidates are not overburdened in anyway, thus, the decision to maintain the cost as been paid since 2018.

He further stated that the payment extra charges experienced by prospective candidates are as a result of exploitations by some examination centers who have been advocating for increase in cost of services rendered to the candidates.

According to him:

“For the avoidance of doubt, the 2024 UTME/DE  e-PIN remains N3500. The registration fee of N700, which is to be paid to CBT centres by candidates, is now to be collected by the Board along with N1500, which is the cost for sitting the main UTME, and N1500 as the cost of the optional Mock-UTME etc are to be collected by the Board on behalf of the CBT centres.”

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, also confirmed the development on Wednesday, when he appeared before a committee of the House of Representatives, TVCNews reported.

He said: “We have not increased the cost, what we have just done is to allow the CBT centers to charge more than they are charging but because we are going to collect it for them.”

“We are collecting it for them because if we allow them collect from these students, they will extort them.”

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