1,475,477 Candidates to Sit For 2015 UTME

 
1,475,477 candidates will sit this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. The exam is scheduled to hold between Tuesday, March 10, and Saturday, March 21, across 400 centers in the country and seven foreign countries.
Amongst the people that would write the 2015 UTME, JAMB are 208 prison inmates, drawn from Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons, and 192 visually impaired candidates will participate.

The seven foreign countries, where the examination will take place are Ghana, Cameroon, Republic of Benin, London, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Ethiopia.

According to the Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. ‘Dibu Ojerinde at a press briefing on Thursday in Abuja, however, applications for 2015 UTME showed a slight decrease of 156,695 candidates, when compared with that of 2014 when 1,632,172 candidates applied for the examination.

Imo State has the highest number of applications with 104,381, while Delta State comes second with 78,854 candidates.

Anambra State has a total of 77,689 candidates who applied for the examination while FCT has the lowest with 4,085.