The Vice Chancellor of Kogi State University, Kabba has defended the pegging of 170 as minimum cut-off marks for the university admission against the 140 benchmark by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board.
The VC said reducing the cut off mark below 170 does not speak well of the university, and that he will not yield to the demands of those calling for him to lower the admission score.
Prof. Eniola who spoke yesterday at the school premises during the end of one year program of the institution said he was aware that the institution should have agreed to the 140 score to attract many students, but doing so will be against the aim of the school in setting high standard.
“Many person have accused us of setting our admission score high, but our aim is not to generate revenue but to produce standard education we can be proud of.
“Setting 170 as admission benchmark is not too high. We understand that as a new institution, we should be concerned about getting many students, but lowering our standard just to attract students will only give the school revenue, and supporting mediocrity.
“Our motto is ‘Beating the best, to become the best”. We can only achieve that if we set a high standard from the ooset. There are institutions that will not even admit students with less than 200 scores, even while JAMB pegged it at 140″
Prof. Eniola however advised those who could not meet up with the 170 score but interested in the new university to apply for ‘A’ level course, stressing that such students would be given priority in the next session.
He also revealed that the University will be admitting 1,750 out of the 3500 candidates that picked the university as their first choice for 2024/2025 academic session.
The Vice Chancellor said the new citadel of learning commenced academic session in January 2023 with 1,200 students.
