JAMB 2024: Nearly Two Million Candidates Set to Write UTME on April 19, See Other Statistics

A total of 1,985,642 JAMB candidates will be taking the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scheduled to start on 19th April 2024. Here’s a breakdown of some key statistics.

In exactly 31 days to JAMB (as of the time of writing), a total of One Million, Nine Hundred Eighty-five thousand, Six hundred forty-two (1,985,642) candidates will be in the 2024 JAMB Exam.

Out of the approximately 2m candidates, 123,636 candidates originated from Oyo State. This number puts them as the state with the HIGHEST APPLICANTS for 2024.

Ogun State emerged as the 2nd state with the highest number of applicants, with a total of 114,435 candidates.

Osun State emerged 3rd position with 110,854 candidates while Imo State emerged 4th position with 102,741 candidates.

The table below presents the 2024 UTME application statistics by the state of origin in Nigeria, sorted from the state with the highest number of applicants to the lowest.

State	Number of Candidates
Oyo	123,636
Ogun	114,435
Osun	110,854
Imo	102,741
Delta	91,344
Benue	87,110
Kogi	86,836
Anambra	78,981
Kaduna	77,069
Enugu	73,867
Kwara	73,746
Kano	72,758
Ondo	72,448
Edo	71,612
Akwa Ibom	67,397
Abia	52,546
Ekiti	49,721
Rivers	49,298
Plateau	46,181
Lagos	46,063
Nasarawa	41,651
Cross River	41,109
Katsina	34,992
Ebonyi	33,395
Borno	33,098
Taraba	30,362
Niger	27,834
Adamawa	26,713
Jigawa	25,499
Bauchi	25,264
Bayelsa	24,076
Gombe	22,558
Yobe	17,711
Kebbi	17,658
Sokoto	17,447
Zamfara	9,473
FCT (Abuja)	8,020

Also, the bulletin revealed that more GIRLS bought the JAMB 2024 application form. However, the difference isn’t that much.

A total of 1,00,5223 females bought the form while only 980,419 males bought the form.

The bulletin also revealed that nearly 1.4 billion Naira (N1,389,333,400) was given to JAMB CBT owners for their services.

Many Are Called But Few are Chosen!

While nearly 2 million candidates will write the 2024 JAMB Exam, barely One Million Candidates will actually gain admission.

Why?

That’s because of factors like Admission Slots, Course Competitiveness, School Competitiveness, etc.

What does this mean for you?

If you want to stay ahead, make sure you come out among the best else you might end up writing JAMB exam. That’s NOT our wish for you.

Ensure you have started studying for the JAMB Exam.

Read your text books with the latest and official JAMB syllabus for 2024.

Read with friends.

Study (not cram) JAMB Past questions.

Join a good tutorial (ALLSCHOOL JAMB Lesson is the best online lesson that helps you study effectively at your comfort).

If you do all that, you will be among the few that will be admitted.

We desire that you score extremely high in JAMB and gain admission into your dream school.

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Here are some important dates all JAMB Candidates must remember:

Commencement of 2026 JAMB UTME Registration: January 2026.
Deadline for the 2026 UTME Registration: March 2026.
2026 UTME Mock Examination Date: April 2026.
Printing of 2026 UTME Examination Slips: April 2026.
2026 UTME Examination Date: April – May 2026.
Release of UTME Results: May 2026.
Sale of 2026 Direct Entry (DE) application form: March 2026.
Deadline for the 2025 DE application: It will likely be on or before June 2026.

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