The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS with the collaboration of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), an institution that oversees the admission process into any University in Nigeria, released the number of registered applicants for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across all states in the country. The report contains the number of both females and males applicants from the 36 states and the federal capital territory (FCT).

According to the report, the total number of applicants eligible for the 2018 UTME is 1.65 million of which 750,793 females and 902,049 males registered for the examination.
When classified into the six geo-political zones of the country, the six states from the south-western part had a total of 391,872 (23.70%), followed by the south-eastern states with 306,248 (18.52%), north-central states had a total 301,060 (18.21%), south-south states with 297,135 (17.97%), states from the north-western had 217,681 (13.17%), north-eastern part of the country with 138,846 (8.40%) and foreigners with 285 (0.017%) applicants.

The result is surprising as the most populous state in the country Lagos fell out of the top 10 while Osun state makes the top 10.
1. Imo

Imo ranked the first with the highest number of registered applicants. The total number of registered applicants from the state is 93,048. However, despite its high number, the state also ranked the third states with highest rate of decreased applicants (-8.94%) from the previous year of 2017. Imo also has the highest number of registered females at 50,866 while the number of registered males was 42,182.

https://realnaira.com.ng/2020/02/top-10-states-with-the-highest-number-of-registered-utme-applicants/

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