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The management of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, ABU has released its admission cut-off mark for the 2025/2026 academic session. Continue reading to see more details below.

There are certain criteria to be observed by students before being admitted to study in any of the courses in any university. One of these which include meeting the required cut off mark for each school as well as the courses itself. 

It is very easy to obtain admission if one has met the required cut-off mark for admission into a particular course.

About Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)

Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is a federal government research university in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. ABU was founded on 4 October 1962, at the University of Northern Nigeria.

The university operates two campuses: Samaru (main) and Kongo in Zaria. There is a pre-degree school in Funtua a few kilometres from the main campus owned by the university.

The Samaru Campus

The Samaru campus houses the administrative offices and the faculties of physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, arts and languages, education, environmental design, engineering, medical sciences, agricultural sciences and research facilities.

The Kongo Campus

The Kongo campus hosts the faculties of Law and Administration.

Faculty of Administration

The Faculty of Administration consists of Accounting, Business Administration, Local Government and Development Studies and Public Administration Departments. Additionally, the university is responsible for other institutions and programmes at other locations.

It is named after the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the first premier of Northern Nigeria. The university runs a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programmes (and offers associate degrees and vocational and remedial programmes).

History of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)

As Nigeria approached independence on October 1, 1960, it had only a single university: the University of Ibadan, established in 1948.

 The important Ashby Commission report  (submitted a month before independence) recommended adding new universities in each of Nigeria’s then-three regions and the capital, Lagos.

Even before the report, however, the regional governments had begun planning universities.

College Status

In May 1960, the Northern Region had upgraded the School of Arabic Studies in Kano to become the Ahmadu Bello College for Arabic and Islamic Studies. (The college was named after the region’s dominant political leader, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello.)

In 1966, Dr. Alexander was succeeded as ABU vice-chancellor by Dr. Ishaya Shuaibu Audu, a pediatrician and associate professor at the University of Lagos. Audu had been born in Wusasa, near Zaria, in 1928. A native Hausa, he was ABU’s first Nigerian vice-chancellor and a northerner.

However, his membership in the Hausa Christian community of Wusasa probably had some later impact on his tenure.

Civil War Era

ABU was seriously affected by the coups and the anti-Igbo riots of 1966. But, under Dr. Audu’s leadership, ABU was to grow and develop at an even faster pace.

Growth in student enrollments had been held hostage to the growth and development of A-level training at the secondary school level.

So beginning in 1968–69 ABU broke free from the British three-year heritage and established the School of Basic Studies to provide advanced secondary pre-degree training on campus.

 ABU Programmes

Students who entered through the School of Basic Studies essentially embarked on a four-year programme toward a bachelor’s degree.

Opposed initially by some, the school proved a great success and enrollments expanded even more rapidly. By its tenth-year ABU total enrollments including non- and pre-degree programmes were put at over 7,000 of which more than half were in degree programmes.

 First Ten Years

In its first ten years, the University of Ibadan produced 615 graduates. At ABU the corresponding figure after 10 years was 2,333 first degrees, along with several advanced degrees.

From the beginning, ABU was remarkable for the breadth of its ambition. In its institutions, but mainly on or close by the main campus by Samaru, ABU was creating a range of programmes that only the very most comprehensive of U.S. state universities could have matched.

Ranging far beyond the standard fields of the arts, languages, social sciences and sciences, it included engineering, medicine (the Zaria hospital was an ABU teaching hospital), pharmacy, architecture, and a wide variety of agricultural departments including veterinary medicine.

Courses and Campuses

What was called the Kongo campus just outside the old city in Zaria taught public administration and carried out a programme of in-service training for local government throughout the north. The Faculty of Law was based at the Kongo campus.

The Faculty of Education taught education courses and managed the Advanced Teacher’s Colleges in the northern states. At the Kano campus (now called Abdullahi Bayero College) ABU taught courses in Hausa, Arabic and Islamic studies.

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What is Cut off Mark?

Cut off mark is an agreed score set by a particular institution as a basic of admitting students into the department of study.  This score is usually accredited to candidates based on their performance in a particular examination.

However, students who have scored above the required cut-off mark will be given admission and preferentially treated in the admission process above those who have met the exact cut off mark.

ABU Cut off Mark

The jamb fixed cut off mark for ABU is 180.

Candidates with higher scores are first considered in admission basics candidates with lower scores though might meet the cut off mark of 180 may likely not be admitted. In fact, it is the higher your scores, the higher the chance of being admitted.

Departmental Cut-off Mark:

The Ahmadu Bello University Zaria does not really have a specific cut off mark for courses. However, candidates who have scored a minimum of one 180 in UTME examination are eligible to apply for admission into any of their choice courses.

Due to the high number of students wishing to study in the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, the admission process is competitive and admission is given based on JAMB score and O level grades.

Departmental Cut Off Marks

Below are courses offered in the university as well as their cut off mark;

1. 220 – 240 – Medicine (O’ Level result with one sitting only) and Nursing
2. 200 – Mass Communication, Common Law, Pharmacy, Anatomy, Physiology
3. 190 – Computer Science, English Language, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Geology, all engineering courses except Agricultural and Biosystem Engineering.
4. 180 – All other courses

Candidates MUST meet the minimum UTME scores for their chosen courses, have the right UTME subject combinations as prescribed in the JAMB Brochure, and the requisite ‘O’ Level subjects at credit level.

Nature of Admission Screening

The Ahmadu Bello University Zaria holds her admission screening exercises within a week or couple of weeks and it usually comes in two phases. Students who applied to study in the school are to proceed with the pre-screening exercise when once it is being announced.

Documents Required for the Pre-screening Exercise

Documents required for the pre-screening exercise are SSCE result and JAMB registration printout only.

It is often important that a candidate arrive early and locate his/her screening venue early. Candidates will be screen on the JAMB scores and their SSCE results.

The second phase of the screening is after the admission lists might have been released. Candidates who have merited admission will be invited for another screening exercise. Here all documents such as;

• Original copies of their educational qualifications (Statements of Results/Certificates).
  
  N/B: Cases of awaiting results will NOT be accepted.
• Birth Certification/Age Declaration.
• A letter of good conduct from your Village Head or a responsible member of your
  
  community/or civil servant not below Grade Level 10 or equivalent in the private sector.
• Certificate of Local Government of origin; and this notification of admission status
  
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ABU Zaria Address and Locations

The Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is located in the heart of the town of Zaria, Nigeria

Contact US @

Vice Chancellor’s Office

The Vice-Chancellor,

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

Email: [email protected]

Academic and Staff Matters:

The Registrar,

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

Email: [email protected]

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