JAMB refutes claims of increasing UTME registration fee, says e-PIN remains N3500

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied the allegations that it has hiked its examination registration fee for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

In a press statement issued on Thursday by JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, the Board said that “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.”

The Board added 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.”

JAMB added, “It is, however, pertinent to state the fact that what is being perceived in some quarters as increment in its fees is nothing other than the fallout of its cashless policy through which all fees payable by candidates to CBT centres have been consolidated and are paid along with their application fees to prevent their wanton exploitation by unscrupulous centre owners. These fees are in turn remitted to partnering centres on a weekly basis. For instance, candidates are expected to pay N700 for registration, N1500 as examination fees and N1500 for the optional Mock-UTME at privately – owned centres.

“It is also worthy to note that the Board had been resisting the call by its partnering and privately-owned centres for a drastic increase in the cost of the services they render to the candidates as a consequence of the current economic situation to which the Board has always maintained that its services are not for profit.

“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.”