The Management of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, has extended the deadline for its Post UTME and Direct Entry screening registration from July 3 to July 31, 2026, giving prospective students more time to complete their applications for the 2026/2027 academic session. The University disclosed that candidates must finish registration, upload the required documents, and ensure their details align with their JAMB records before the new closing date, noting that no further extension may be granted.

Online registration for the exercise originally opened on Monday, June 1, 2026, and was scheduled to run for just over a month before the extension was announced. To qualify for screening, UTME candidates must have scored a minimum of 180 in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, while Direct Entry candidates are required to have selected FUTA as their first choice institution on the JAMB portal. All applicants must also possess at least five credit passes, including English Language and Mathematics, obtained in not more than two sittings through WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or an equivalent examination body, and must be at least 16 years old by September 30, 2026.

Course specific cut off marks apply for some programmes. Medicine and Surgery, reinstated for this admission cycle after an earlier suspension, requires a minimum UTME score of 250, while Nursing Science requires at least 220. Engineering programmes typically demand scores above 200, whereas the general cut off across other courses remains 180.

Candidates are required to pay a screening fee of ₦2,000 through the Remita platform after generating a payment code on the University portal, complete the online registration form, and print out their registration slip. The University stressed that applicants must ensure their UTME registration number and full name match exactly what appears on their JAMB slip, and that O'Level results have been uploaded correctly on the JAMB Central Admissions Processing System, as the screening exercise will be based on verified JAMB scores and O'Level records.

Candidates who fail to complete registration within the extended window will not be eligible for the screening exercise. The University encouraged interested applicants not to delay, given the scale of competition for available spaces each admission cycle.