Getting into the University of Lagos starts with one number: the UNILAG cut off mark. Every year, thousands of UTME candidates search for this figure before they even think about registering for Post-UTME, and getting it wrong or relying on a recycled figure from three admission cycles ago can cost you a spot at one of Nigeria’s most sought-after universities.

This guide breaks down the UNILAG cut off mark for the 2026/2027 academic session in full: the general JAMB benchmark, departmental merit scores, O’Level requirements, the Post-UTME screening process, and the mistakes that quietly disqualify otherwise strong candidates.

Every figure here is checked against UNILAG’s official publications rather than copied from outdated aggregator lists.

Overview of UNILAG Cut Off Mark 2026/2027

Requirement	Detail
General UTME cut off mark	200 out of 400 (all courses)
Law	240 and above recommended
Highest departmental merit score (2025/2026 cycle)	Medicine and Surgery — 85.025
O’Level requirement	5 credits at one sitting, including English and Mathematics
Minimum age	16 years by 30 September of the admission year
Choice requirement	UNILAG must be your First Choice institution
Admission basis	Aggregate of UTME, O’Level, and Post-UTME scores

If you take away nothing else from this article, remember this: the UNILAG cut off mark of 200 only gets you into the screening room. It does not get you admission.

What actually determines whether you’re offered a place is your aggregate score, and that is a completely different number from your raw UTME score.

Understanding the UNILAG Cut Off Mark

A lot of confusion around the UNILAG cut off mark comes from candidates mixing up two separate benchmarks. UNILAG itself draws a clear line between them.

1. The General JAMB (UTME) Cut Off Mark

This is the baseline eligibility score set for the entire university, not by UNILAG alone but in line with JAMB’s national framework. For the 2026/2027 admission cycle, the UNILAG cut off mark for UTME eligibility is 200 out of 400, and it applies to virtually every course and faculty in the university.

Score below 200 in the 2026 UTME with UNILAG as your first choice, and you will not be invited for Post-UTME screening — no exceptions, regardless of how strong your O’Level results are.

Law is the one course where candidates are advised to aim meaningfully higher than the baseline. Because of how competitive the Faculty of Law is, a UTME score of 240 or above is generally considered the safer target for candidates hoping to be shortlisted for Law-specific screening, even though the official participation threshold remains 200.

2. The Departmental (Aggregate) Merit Cut Off Mark

This is the number that actually decides admission, and it’s where most “cut off mark” articles online get sloppy. After Post-UTME screening, UNILAG calculates an aggregate score for every candidate, combining:

UTME score (weighted)
O’Level result score
Post-UTME screening score

Each department or programme then sets its own merit cut off mark — the minimum aggregate a candidate needs to be considered for that specific course. This is expressed as a decimal score (for example, 75.7 or 85.025), not a raw UTME score out of 400, and it is this number that competitive candidates should be tracking closely once Post-UTME results are released.

UNILAG JAMB Cut Off Mark for All Courses 2026/2027

S/N	Course	JAMB Cut-Off Mark
1	Creative Arts	200
2	English	200
3	French	200
4	Russian	200
5	German	200
6	History & Strategic Studies	200
7	Linguistics/Igbo	200
8	Linguistics/Yoruba	200
9	Linguistics	200
10	Chinese	200
11	Philosophy	200
12	Christian Religious Studies	200
13	Islamic Religious Studies	200
14	Pharmacology	200
15	Physiology	200
16	Medical Laboratory Science	200
17	Medicine and Surgery	200
18	Nursing	200
19	Physiotherapy	200
20	Radiography	200
21	Dentistry	200
22	Adult Education	200
23	Education Economics	200
24	Business Education	200
25	Education Islamic Religious Studies	200
26	Education Igbo	200
27	Education English	200
28	Early Childhood Education	200
29	Education Yoruba	200
30	Education French	200
31	Education History	200
32	Education Christian Religious Studies	200
33	Education Geography	200
34	Educational Administration	200
35	Educational Foundations	200
36	Health Education	200
37	Human Kinetics Education	200
38	Education Biology	200
39	Education Chemistry	200
40	Education Home Economics	200
41	Integrated Science Education	200
42	Education Mathematics	200
43	Education Physics	200
44	Technology Education	200
45	Special Education	200
46	Biomedical Engineering	200
47	Chemical & Petroleum Engineering	200
48	Civil & Environmental Engineering	200
49	Computer Engineering	200
50	Electrical & Electronics Engineering	200
51	Mechanical Engineering	200
52	Metallurgical & Material Engineering	200
53	Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering	200
54	Systems Engineering	200
55	Architecture	200
56	Building	200
57	Estate Management	200
58	Quantity Surveying	200
59	Urban & Regional Planning	200
60	Law	200
61	Accounting	200
62	Actuarial Science	200
63	Insurance	200
64	Business Administration	200
65	Finance	200
66	IRPM	200
67	Pharmacy	200
68	Botany	200
69	Cell Biology & Genetics	200
70	Chemistry	200
71	Computer Science	200
72	Geology	200
73	Geophysics	200
74	Marine Biology	200
75	Fisheries	200
76	Mathematics	200
77	Industrial Mathematics	200
78	Statistics	200
79	Microbiology	200
80	Physics	200
81	Zoology	200
82	Biochemistry	200
83	Biostatistics	200
84	Data Science	200
85	Environmental Standards	200
86	Economics	200
87	Economics & Development Studies	200
88	Geography	200
89	Meteorology & Climate Science	200
90	Mass Communication	200
91	Library & Information Science	200
92	Political Science	200
93	Psychology	200
94	Public Administration	200
95	Social Work	200
96	Sociology	200
97	Social Standard	200

UNILAG Departmental Cut Off Marks for All Courses 2026/2027

S/N	Course	Cut-Off Mark
1	Creative Arts	69.500
2	English	68.175
3	French	60.225
4	Russian	58.775
5	German	60.950
6	History & Strategic Studies	70.725
7	Linguistics/Igbo	NIL
8	Linguistics/Yoruba	64.100
9	Linguistics	72.550
10	Chinese	68.950
11	Philosophy	66.075
12	Christian Religious Studies	54.625
13	Islamic Religious Studies	54.675
14	Pharmacology	73.125
15	Physiology	72.875
16	Medical Laboratory Science	74.375
17	Medicine and Surgery	85.025
18	Nursing	79.800
19	Physiotherapy	74.725
20	Radiography	77.375
21	Dentistry	76.650
22	Adult Education	53.525
23	Education Economics	56.175
24	Business Education	59.650
25	Education Islamic Religious Studies	56.125
26	Education Igbo	NIL
27	Education English	68.050
28	Early Childhood Education	60.250
29	Education Yoruba	62.025
30	Education French	59.300
31	Education History	53.900
32	Education Christian Religious Studies	56.275
33	Education Geography	NIL
34	Educational Administration	58.000
35	Educational Foundations	60.025
36	Health Education	52.675
37	Human Kinetics Education	53.350
38	Education Biology	53.500
39	Education Chemistry	53.875
40	Education Home Economics	58.125
41	Integrated Science Education	56.100
42	Education Mathematics	51.075
43	Education Physics	63.000
44	Technology Education	55.125
45	Special Education	58.200
46	Biomedical Engineering	73.300
47	Chemical & Petroleum Engineering	Not separately published
48	Civil & Environmental Engineering	75.625
49	Computer Engineering	82.875
50	Electrical & Electronics Engineering	79.500
51	Mechanical Engineering	78.525
52	Metallurgical & Material Engineering	59.800
53	Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering	58.125
54	Systems Engineering	78.225
55	Architecture	75.575
56	Building	57.825
57	Estate Management	57.325
58	Quantity Surveying	64.300
59	Urban & Regional Planning	53.500
60	Law	78.225
61	Accounting	75.700
62	Actuarial Science	64.925
63	Insurance	65.850
64	Business Administration	69.300
65	Finance	Not separately published
66	IRPM	60.775
67	Pharmacy	76.400
68	Botany	51.450
69	Cell Biology & Genetics	68.975
70	Chemistry	59.500
71	Computer Science	83.425
72	Geology	63.550
73	Geophysics	65.225
74	Marine Biology	55.450
75	Fisheries	52.475
76	Mathematics	63.675
77	Industrial Mathematics	67.875
78	Statistics	65.925
79	Microbiology	68.075
80	Physics	60.250
81	Zoology	57.250
82	Biochemistry	69.400
83	Biostatistics	52.125
84	Data Science	76.925
85	Environmental Standards	65.775
86	Economics	73.475
87	Economics & Development Studies	65.725
88	Geography	57.475
89	Meteorology & Climate Science	55.950
90	Mass Communication	74.074
91	Library & Information Science	66.625
92	Political Science	68.150
93	Psychology	69.700
94	Public Administration	74.200
95	Social Work	67.350
96	Sociology	68.275
97	Social Standard	60.950

Why the UNILAG Cut Off Mark Is Not the Same as Your Admission Guarantee

A recurring and costly misconception is treating the 200 UNILAG cut off mark as proof of admission. It is not. Scoring 200 in UTME with UNILAG as first choice does exactly one thing: it qualifies you to register for Post-UTME screening. From there, three additional factors determine whether you’re actually admitted:

Your O’Level results — grades, subject combination, and number of sittings all matter.
Your Post-UTME screening performance — UNILAG runs an online aptitude test, and your score here is weighted into your aggregate.
Available slots versus competition — even candidates who clear the departmental merit cut off mark can miss out if a programme is oversubscribed that year.

This is why two candidates can both clear the general UNILAG cut off mark of 200 and end up with completely different outcomes — one admitted, one not — purely based on their aggregate ranking against everyone else who applied for the same course.

UNILAG Post-UTME Screening: Eligibility Requirements for 2026/2027

Meeting the UNILAG cut off mark is step one. To actually sit for Post-UTME screening in the 2026/2027 cycle, candidates must satisfy every condition below:

Requirement	Detail
First Choice	UNILAG must be selected as First Choice institution in 2026 UTME
Minimum UTME score	200 and above
O’Level credits	5 credit passes at one sitting, including English Language and Mathematics
Accepted O’Level bodies	WAEC, NECO, or NABTEB
Age requirement	Minimum 16 years old by 30 September 2026
O’Level upload deadline	On or before 14 August 2026 (both JAMB CAPS and UNILAG portal)
Mandatory participation	Post-UTME Online Aptitude Test

Two details here trip up more candidates than anything else.

First, the five O’Level credits must come from a single sitting — results combined across two different exam diets are not accepted for this admission cycle.
Second, UNILAG does not consider second-choice candidates through the standard Post-UTME route, so if UNILAG wasn’t your first choice, meeting the UNILAG cut off mark will not help you unless you use the JAMB change-of-institution window before it closes.

UNILAG Admission Requirements by Course Category

Beyond the general UNILAG cut off mark, specific course categories carry their own O’Level subject expectations:

Course Category	Typical O’Level Requirements
Medicine and Surgery	English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology (all credit passes)
Engineering	English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry (credit passes)
Law	English, Literature-in-English, and any two relevant Arts/Social Science subjects
Computer Science	English, Mathematics, Physics, and one other Science subject
Accounting / Business	English, Mathematics, and Economics or Commerce
Arts and Humanities	English plus subjects relevant to the specific programme

Always cross-check your intended course against UNILAG’s official JAMB brochure listing, since subject combinations occasionally differ slightly by department even within the same faculty.

How to Improve Your Chances Beyond the UNILAG Cut Off Mark

Since clearing the baseline UNILAG cut off mark is only the entry ticket, candidates serious about admission should focus on the factors that actually move the needle:

Aim well above 200 in UTME: For competitive courses like Medicine, Law, and Computer Science, a raw score in the 280–320 range gives meaningfully more cushion than the bare minimum.
Protect your O’Level sitting: A single, clean sitting with strong grades in relevant subjects carries real weight in the aggregate formula — don’t gamble this on a resit combination.
Take the Post-UTME aptitude test seriously: It is not a formality; it is one of three inputs into your final aggregate score.
Apply early and follow the portal precisely: Missed upload deadlines (like the 14 August O’Level deadline) can disqualify an otherwise strong candidate regardless of their score.
Have a realistic backup course: If your target department’s cut off mark has historically been high (Medicine, Law, Computer Science), consider a related course with a lower threshold as a strategic second option within UNILAG.

Common UNILAG Cut Off Mark Scams to Avoid

Every admission cycle, fraudulent pages and social media accounts claim to sell “guaranteed admission” once you meet the UNILAG cut off mark, or advertise a fake “direct admission” list in exchange for payment. UNILAG has repeatedly and publicly stated that:

It does not sell admission slots through agents, WhatsApp groups, or third-party “consultants.”
All departmental cut-off marks and admission lists are published only through the official UNILAG website and the JAMB CAPS portal.
Any individual or platform requesting payment for “guaranteed” admission outside official Post-UTME and school fee channels is engaging in fraud.

If a cut off mark figure, admission list, or payment request did not come directly from unilag.edu.ng or JAMB CAPS, treat it as unverified until you confirm it yourself.

FAQs;

What is the UNILAG cut off mark for 2026/2027?

The general UNILAG cut off mark for 2026/2027 is 200 out of 400 in UTME for all courses. This is the minimum score required to be eligible for Post-UTME screening, provided UNILAG was selected as your first-choice institution.

Is the UNILAG cut off mark the same for all courses?

The general UTME eligibility cut off mark (200) applies to all courses. However, departmental merit cut off marks differ significantly by programme after Post-UTME screening — Medicine, Law, and Computer Science typically require much higher aggregate scores than Arts or Humanities courses.

What is the UNILAG cut off mark for Medicine and Surgery?

Based on the most recently published official figures, the merit cut off mark for Medicine and Surgery was 85.025, the highest of any programme at UNILAG. This is an aggregate score, not a raw UTME score.

What is the UNILAG cut off mark for Law?

While the general eligibility threshold is 200, competitive candidates for Law are advised to score 240 or above in UTME. The published merit aggregate cut off mark for Law was 78.225 in the most recent cycle.

Does meeting the UNILAG cut off mark guarantee admission?

No. Meeting the UNILAG cut off mark only qualifies you for Post-UTME screening. Final admission depends on your aggregate score (UTME, O’Level, and Post-UTME combined) relative to other applicants for your chosen course.

Can I get into UNILAG with 200 in UTME?

Yes, a score of 200 makes you eligible to apply for Post-UTME screening. Whether you are ultimately admitted depends on your full aggregate score and how competitive your chosen course is that year.

What O’Level subjects do I need to meet UNILAG admission requirements?

You need five credit passes at one sitting, including English Language and Mathematics, plus subjects relevant to your intended course (for example, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology for Medicine).

Does UNILAG accept second-choice candidates?

No. UNILAG only considers candidates who selected it as their first-choice institution in the UTME for the standard Post-UTME screening route.

When will UNILAG release the 2026/2027 departmental cut off marks?

UNILAG typically publishes departmental merit cut off marks a few weeks after Post-UTME screening and aggregate scoring are completed. Candidates should monitor the official UNILAG website and JAMB CAPS portal for the confirmed release.

Where can I check the official UNILAG cut off mark?

The only reliable sources are the official UNILAG website (unilag.edu.ng) and the JAMB CAPS portal. Avoid third-party pages or social media accounts claiming exclusive access to unpublished cut-off figures.

UNILAG Cut Off Mark 2026/2027 & Admission Requirements

Overview of UNILAG Cut Off Mark 2026/2027