The exercise started on Thursday October 5 and will end on October 10, 2017.
Deputy vice chancellor (Academics) and chairman, University Admissions Committee, Professor Olatunde Arayela, said that 13,500 candidates registered for the exercise but that the Senate of the university had decided that it would admit only 3,500 for the academic session.
Professor Arayela, however, gave the assurance that FUTA, under the leadership of Professor Joseph Fuwape, had put in place all necessary measures to ensure efficient and hitch-free screening exercise.
According to him, each programme will have its own cutoff mark, which will be determined by its carrying capacity; and only those who meet the cut-off point will be offered admission.
Professor Arayela said that during the policy meeting organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) involving all heads of tertiary institutions in Nigeria and their registrars, a Central Admission Process System (CAPS) was introduced to ensure that only qualified candidates are given admission based on merit.
He said FUTA would adhere strictly to the CAPS paradigm.
On the National Universities Commission (NUC)’s decision to halt admission into management courses for the Federal Universities of Technology and Agriculture, Arayela said the affected students had been duly notified on the development, and that a committee had been set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors (CVC) to look into the issue.
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