As the competition for admission into Nigerian universities intensifies, some courses continue to stand out for their consistently high cut-off marks in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In 2025, several programmes remain highly sought-after, attracting thousands of top-performing candidates. These courses demand not just strong UTME scores but also excellent O’level results.
Medicine and Surgery is always the most competitive course in Nigeria because many students’ dream is to become doctors. Because of the quest for the course, it has limited slots in many tertiary institutions, if not all; hence, it comes with strict quotas.
Students who applied for medicine and surgery are expected to score 280 and above in their UTME and have five credits in their WASSCE or GCE in subjects such as English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
