The JAMB admission deadline for pending offers is Wednesday, September 30, 2026, and the board has said there won’t be another extension. Any admission offer from 2021 to date that hasn’t been accepted or rejected on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) by then will automatically revert to “Not Admitted”.
JAMB first set the cut-off for August 31 and then pushed it to the end of September. In the board’s statement announcing the extension, its Acting Director of Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said: “Candidates with pending admission offers who have not yet accepted or rejected (regular or CUIIA) such offers are strongly advised to do so before 30 September 2026.” If you’ve been offered admission and haven’t touched your CAPS page since, you have until Wednesday to sort it out.
Why ignoring the JAMB admission deadline can cost you the offer
An offer on CAPS isn’t final until you accept it. Once you do, you can print your JAMB admission letter, which schools ask for during registration and clearance. If the offer is left hanging past September 30, the system resets it to “Not Admitted” and JAMB has described this as the last window, with no further opportunity after the extended deadline.
This matters most for students who resumed school on the strength of a departmental list or an acceptance fee receipt but never completed the step on CAPS. Your school may have you on its records, but JAMB’s system is what confirms the admission, and a mismatch between the two can come back to trouble you later, for example when your documents are checked during clearance.
How to accept or reject your offer on CAPS before Wednesday
Log in to the JAMB e-Facility portal with the email and password you used during registration. Click Check Admission Status and then open Access my CAPS. On the CAPS page, open Admission Status, confirm the institution and course shown, and choose Accept Admission or Reject Admission.
Check the course and school carefully before you click, because that’s the admission you’re confirming. If the portal is slow, try again late at night or early in the morning, since traffic tends to build as a deadline approaches. Don’t leave it until Wednesday evening if you can help it, because a failed login or a forgotten password takes time to recover.
Already studying elsewhere? Rejecting an old offer won’t hurt you
JAMB has also addressed a few common situations in its guidance on the pending offers. If you’re already enrolled in a different programme from the one on CAPS, you can accept the offer and then apply for a correction or deletion. If you’re on a second degree, you can reject an earlier unaccepted offer without affecting your current programme.
The same goes if you’ve been offered admission in 2026 and still have an old offer from a previous year sitting on your dashboard. Rejecting the older offer doesn’t affect your 2026 admission, so there’s no reason to leave it unresolved.
NECO results are out, so check your O’level record too
NECO released its 2026 SSCE results on Thursday, September 24. Registrar Prof. Dantani Wushishi said 1,371,992 candidates sat the exam and 804,948 of them (58.67%) got five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics, when he announced the results in Minna. If your admission depends on a 2026 NECO result, check it on the NECO results portal with your registration number and make sure it’s uploaded to your JAMB profile, because schools can’t process your admission without it.
If you’re relying on a WAEC result instead, JAMB and WAEC have replaced the multiple verification charges with a one-off O’level verification fee of N4,000, paid once through the JAMB Verification Service. After that, institutions aren’t supposed to ask you to pay for the same verification again.
What to do today if you’re not sure where you stand
Log in and look at your CAPS page now, even if you think you accepted your offer long ago. If it shows an offer waiting for a response, accept or reject it before Wednesday. If it shows “Admission in Progress” or nothing at all, contact your school’s admissions office so they can tell you where your admission stands. The aim is simply to make sure that on October 1, what JAMB’s system says about you matches what your school believes.
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