If you’re trying to work out your aggregate score for admission into Niger Delta University (NDU), here’s exactly how the calculation works, including a correctly worked example you can follow with your own JAMB and Post-UTME scores.
NDU is a Bayelsa State government-owned university based on Wilberforce Island, established in 2000. Like most Nigerian universities, it runs a Post-UTME screening exercise and combines that score with your JAMB result to rank candidates for each course.
What Is a Post-UTME Score?
After every UTME exercise, JAMB sets a national benchmark score that candidates must meet before they can be invited to sit a school’s Post-UTME. Each university then fixes its own cut-off, which can’t fall below JAMB’s benchmark, to decide how many candidates get invited to screening.
A candidate who clears JAMB’s national benchmark but falls short of NDU’s own cut-off mark won’t be eligible to sit NDU’s Post-UTME. That cut-off mark, set by NDU’s admissions board, is what determines eligibility for screening in the first place.
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How to Calculate NDU Aggregate Score
NDU’s JAMB examination is marked out of 400, while its Post-UTME screening is marked out of 100. The aggregate is built on a 50:50 split between the two:
- Divide your JAMB score by 8.
- Divide your Post-UTME score by 2.
- Add the two results together to get your aggregate score.
Say a candidate scored 240 in JAMB and 80 in NDU’s Post-UTME:
240 ÷ 8 = 30
80 ÷ 2 = 40
30 + 40 = 70
That candidate’s aggregate score would be 70 out of a possible 100.
NDU Departmental Cut-off Marks
NDU runs dozens of courses across its faculties, from Medicine and Law to Education, Engineering, and the Social Sciences, and it’s not accurate to say every single one shares an identical cut-off mark. In practice, competitive courses like Medicine and Surgery, Law, Pharmacy, and Nursing/Nursing Science consistently demand higher JAMB and Post-UTME performance than less competitive courses in Education, Arts, or the Social Sciences.
Because exact departmental cut-offs shift from one admission cycle to the next, and NDU doesn’t publish one static master list, the most reliable source for the current 2026/2027 figures is NDU’s own admissions portal once the Post-UTME screening results are released.
Final Thoughts
NDU’s aggregate formula is straightforward once you know the split: JAMB divided by 8, Post-UTME divided by 2, added together. Work out your own number as soon as your Post-UTME result is released, then check it against your department’s cut-off on NDU’s official admissions portal for the 2026/2027 session.