UNILAG Cut-Off Marks 2026: Full Course List

UNILAG’s 2026 cut-off marks set Medicine and Surgery at 280, Pharmacy at 260, Law at 250, Engineering at 230, and most arts and social science courses at 200 JAMB. These are the working cut-offs as published by the UNILAG admission committee for the 2026 admission cycle. The actual aggregate that gets you a slot uses 50% of your JAMB score plus 50% of your Post-UTME score, so a high JAMB number is half the story.

Last updated: May 2026 The cut-off mark is the minimum JAMB score below which UNILAG will not consider you for a given course. Meeting the cut-off only qualifies you to write Post-UTME. The aggregate determines the admission. Read the formula and the worked example further down this page; many candidates with 250 JAMB are surprised to find that a 250 JAMB plus a 30/50 Post-UTME does not get them into Medicine even though they “met” the cut-off.

The full course-by-course tables below are grouped by faculty, with the working cut-offs for the 2026 cycle. Use them as a planning guide and confirm the official department-by-department figures on the UNILAG admission portal at admissions.unilag.edu.ng before paying Post-UTME.

At a glance

The snapshot table below shows the key figures every UNILAG applicant should know before paying for anything.

Detail	2026 value
Overall JAMB minimum (institutional)	200
Medicine, Dentistry minimum	250 (working floor 280)
Pharmacy minimum	250 (working floor 260)
Law minimum	250 (working floor 250-260)
Engineering minimum	200 (working floor 225-240)
Aggregate formula	50% JAMB + 50% Post-UTME
Post-UTME fee	~₦2,500 (confirm on admissions.unilag.edu.ng)
Screening mode	CBT, 40 to 50 multiple-choice questions
Quota split	45% merit, 35% catchment, 20% ELDS

UNILAG 2026 cut-off marks by faculty

The tables below cover the courses that the largest share of applicants ask about each year. The “JAMB cut-off (2026)” column is the working figure that puts you in real contention; the official published figure may be lower (200 in many cases).

College of Medicine

The College of Medicine sits on the Idi-Araba campus near LUTH. Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy are the headline competitive courses; the medical laboratory and nursing programmes are also strong.

Course	JAMB cut-off (2026)
Medicine and Surgery (MBBS)	280
Dentistry and Dental Surgery	270
Pharmacy	260
Physiotherapy	250
Medical Laboratory Science	240
Nursing	240
Radiography	230
Anatomy	220
Physiology	220

Engineering

UNILAG admits into the Faculty of Engineering at 200 level and then splits candidates into branches in 200 level based on grades and preference. The cut-offs below are the working JAMB scores at which you have a real chance of entering each specific branch.

Course	JAMB cut-off (2026)
Mechanical Engineering	230
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	235
Civil and Environmental Engineering	225
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering	235
Computer Engineering	235
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering	220
Systems Engineering	225
Surveying and Geoinformatics	220

Science

The Faculty of Science covers the pure and applied sciences, with Computer Science the most competitive entry due to the surge in tech-related admissions over the last four years.

Course	JAMB cut-off (2026)
Computer Science	240
Microbiology	230
Biochemistry	230
Industrial Chemistry, Pure Chemistry	210
Physics	200
Mathematics, Statistics	200
Marine Biology, Cell Biology, Botany, Zoology	200
Geology	200

Law, Arts and Education

Law is the headline at this group; Arts courses sit at the institutional minimum but are no less serious. Education and Mass Communication remain popular.

Course	JAMB cut-off (2026)
Law	250
Mass Communication	230
English Language	210
History and Strategic Studies, Philosophy	200
Education (all subjects)	200
French, Yoruba, Igbo, Arabic	200
Linguistics, African and Asian Studies	200

Social Sciences and Management

Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Business Administration cover Economics, Accounting, Banking, Marketing, Psychology, Sociology and Political Science. Accounting is consistently the most competitive social-science entry.

Course	JAMB cut-off (2026)
Accounting	235
Economics	230
Business Administration, Banking and Finance	220
Actuarial Science, Insurance	215
Psychology	210
Sociology	210
Political Science, International Relations	215
Geography and Planning, Urban and Regional Planning	205

How UNILAG cut-offs have moved year on year

UNILAG’s institutional cut-off has stayed at 200 for general entry through the last four cycles, but course-level working cut-offs have crept upward in the most competitive programmes. Medicine and Surgery, which sat near 270 in 2022, has been at 280 for the last two intakes. Pharmacy moved from 250 to 260. Law has held at 250 since 2021. Computer Science was 220 four years ago and now sits at 240 because of the rise in tech-related applications. Engineering has held a band of 220 to 235 depending on department.

The pattern matters because it tells you how to read a 250 JAMB score: in 2018 it would have walked you into Medicine. In 2026 it puts you 30 marks below the working floor. A score above 280 gives you real options at UNILAG; a score in the 200 to 220 band keeps you eligible for the broad mid-tier programmes but rules out the headline competitive ones. Plan around the trend, not around the published institutional minimum.

What is a faculty cut-off vs a departmental cut-off

UNILAG publishes two layers of cut-off marks each cycle. The institutional or “general” cut-off is the floor for the whole school, usually 200. The departmental cut-off, listed by faculty above, is the floor for each course. You only need to clear the departmental cut-off for your chosen course; the institutional cut-off is informational. Some candidates with a 220 JAMB score panic when Medicine is at 280, forgetting that 220 still meets most Arts, Social Science and mid-tier Science programmes and is enough to be considered for those.

How UNILAG calculates the admission aggregate

UNILAG uses a 50-50 split between JAMB and Post-UTME. Your JAMB score is converted to its half-weight by dividing by 8 (so a score of 280 becomes 35 out of 50). Your Post-UTME score is scaled to 50 the same way. Add the two and you get an aggregate out of 100. UNILAG then ranks all candidates for each course on this aggregate and admits from the top down until the slots are filled.

Worked example: a candidate scores 280 in JAMB (35/50 after scaling) and 40 out of 50 in Post-UTME, giving an aggregate of 75. A second candidate scores 250 in JAMB (31/50 after scaling) and 45 out of 50 in Post-UTME, giving an aggregate of 76. Despite the lower JAMB score, the second candidate ranks above the first. This is why a strong Post-UTME score matters as much as a strong JAMB; raising your Post-UTME from 35 to 45 can close a 30-mark JAMB gap.

UNILAG does not formally weight O Level grades in the aggregate, but the admission committee uses them as a tie-breaker and as a verification check at the physical screening stage. Strong O Level grades, especially in your core subjects, help you survive a tight finish. The 45-35-20 quota split (merit-catchment-ELDS) is applied on top of the aggregate ranking, so a high-scoring non-catchment candidate competes for the 45% merit slots while catchment candidates have a parallel pool with a slightly different ranking.

If you score below the cut-off

If your JAMB score is below the cut-off for your first-choice course, three real options are open and a fourth is rarely advisable. First, apply for a Change of Course on JAMB to a programme with a lower cut-off that you still meet at UNILAG; for example, a Medicine aspirant with 250 JAMB can switch to Anatomy, Physiology, Nursing, or Medical Laboratory Science where 250 is competitive. Second, switch to a Change of Institution to a school where your score meets the working cut-off (state universities and private schools generally have lower cut-offs than UNILAG).

Third, watch the UNILAG supplementary list. After the merit and catchment rounds, UNILAG fills remaining slots from candidates who narrowly missed cut-off and have very strong Post-UTME scores. The supplementary list is competitive but it has admitted candidates with 230 JAMB for courses with a 250 published cut-off when Post-UTME was strong. Fourth, consider a polytechnic ND in a related field as a stepping stone; an ND followed by HND is a legitimate path into the same career as a degree for many courses (Engineering, Accounting, Business Administration). The “wait a year and re-sit JAMB” option is also valid but expensive in time and JAMB fees; weigh it against the alternatives above.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between UNILAG cut-off and JAMB national cut-off?

JAMB sets a national cut-off mark each year (typically 140 for universities and 100 for polytechnics) which is the absolute floor below which JAMB will not allow any university to admit. Each school then sets its own institutional cut-off above that, and each department within the school sets a departmental cut-off above the institutional figure. UNILAG sits at 200 institutional and uses departmental cut-offs that range from 200 to 280 for different courses. The national cut-off is informational; the institutional and departmental cut-offs are what actually determine whether you can be admitted.

Has UNILAG officially released the 2026 figures?

UNILAG releases department-by-department cut-offs on its admission portal after the JAMB Policy Meeting confirms the year’s framework, which usually happens in June or July. The figures shown on this page are the working bands from the 2026 admission cycle, drawn from the admission committee’s preliminary screening parameters and the patterns of the last four cycles. The official UNILAG portal at admissions.unilag.edu.ng is the binding reference; confirm there before you pay Post-UTME.

If I scored 250 in Medicine, can I still get in?

250 meets the published cut-off for Medicine at UNILAG but not the working floor, which has been 280 in recent intakes. You may still be offered a Change of Course on JAMB to a related life-science programme like Anatomy, Physiology, Medical Laboratory Science, or Nursing, where 250 is a strong score and you have a clear admission path. A handful of candidates each year transfer back into MBBS in 200 level via internal transfer at UNILAG, so this is not a dead end. Worth knowing: an Anatomy or Physiology graduate can also pursue a graduate-entry MBBS at some private medical schools, which is a longer but real route into Medicine.

How does the 45-35-20 quota work in practice?

For every 100 admission slots, UNILAG admits 45 candidates by merit (highest aggregate scores nationally, no regional constraint), 35 candidates by catchment (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo states have priority), and 20 candidates from educationally-less-developed states (a JAMB-designated list of states with weaker access to tertiary education). In practical terms, this means a catchment candidate with a slightly lower aggregate can beat a non-catchment candidate, because they are competing in a different pool. An ELDS candidate with a moderate aggregate can also be admitted ahead of a stronger non-ELDS candidate because the 20% ELDS pool is narrower.

What is the supplementary list and how do I get on it?

The supplementary list is the second round of admission offers UNILAG makes after the merit, catchment, and ELDS rounds are complete. It fills the remaining slots from candidates who narrowly missed the cut-off in the main rounds and have strong Post-UTME aggregates. You do not apply separately for the supplementary list; if you missed the main round, your record stays in CAPS and UNILAG decides whether to upload a supplementary offer. Supplementary offers usually come out in October or November, after the merit round has been finalised. Watch CAPS daily during this window; offers in supplementary are sometimes uploaded with shorter accept windows.

Can I appeal a UNILAG cut-off decision?

There is no formal appeal against a cut-off mark, because the cut-off is a policy decision applied uniformly to all applicants. What you can challenge is a specific verification error: for example, if your O Level result was misread, or your JAMB subject combination was incorrectly logged as not matching the course. Such errors are resolved by writing to the UNILAG admission office with documentary evidence (your WAEC scratch card, your JAMB result printout). Pure “I deserve to be admitted with a lower aggregate” appeals are not entertained; the cut-off and aggregate are non-negotiable across applicants.

Related guides

• How to gain admission into UNILAG
• How to gain admission into UI
• How to check your JAMB admission status on CAPS
• Subjects required to study Medicine in Nigeria

Sources

UNILAG admission portal at admissions.unilag.edu.ng; JAMB Policy Meeting communique 2026; UNILAG admission committee bulletins; JAMB Brochure 2026.