Avoid the highly competitive screening baseline by targeting these safe score margins.
Safe Range
190 - 240
The baseline JAMB UTME cut-off mark is 160 for foundational science courses. However, clinical and highly competitive health programmes have much higher, strictly enforced thresholds: Medicine & Surgery and Dentistry require 220+, while Nursing Science, Physiotherapy, and Medical Laboratory Science typically require 200+.
Use of English, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
Five (5) O'Level Credit passes including English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology at not more than two sittings (Note: Highly competitive federal departments frequently enforce a single-sitting rule).
UNIMED conducts a highly competitive computer-based Post-UTME screening test. The final admission aggregate depends heavily on this CBT performance combined with the JAMB score.
Direct Entry candidates must make UNIMED their first choice and possess a good Honours Degree (minimum of Second Class Lower) in related health sciences, or a relevant National Diploma, or JUPEB/A-Level passes in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
The single biggest mistake candidates make when applying for Nursing Science at UNIMED is assuming that hitting the university's baseline general cut-off mark ensures eligibility for the screening process. Nursing operates inside highly restrictive capacity caps mandated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN). If you score below the hard departmental minimum, your portal choice will face immediate drop filters regardless of aggregate score metrics.
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