How to Accept Admission on JAMB CAPS: Free, Then ₦2,200 to Print

Clicking Accept on JAMB CAPS is free. You only pay later, when JAMB's e-Facility portal charges ₦2,200 for your admission letter and original result slip together. A cybercafé will want a little extra to print them. Below is how to accept admission on JAMB CAPS, step by step, with what each click costs.

Speed matters more than money here. You have four weeks after your school's approval goes through to accept this year's offer. Old offers that nobody has touched expire too, on 30 November. That cut-off covers pending offers from 2021 to 2025.

The costs below fit a UTME candidate whose offer showed up on CAPS this October. Check the payment screen before you pay, because fees can change.

Step 1, ₦0: JAMB CAPS login and what your status means

Go to efacility.jamb.gov.ng and sign in with the email and password on your JAMB profile. Then click Check Admission Status, which opens CAPS. If you've forgotten the password, use the reset link on the login page. Nobody needs paying to "recover" it for you.

Three statuses turn up most often. "Not Admitted" just means no offer has reached you yet. "Admission in Progress" means your school has put your name forward, and the offer now waits on the head of the institution or on JAMB's approval. Hold the celebration on that one. JAMB can still turn it down if you've missed a requirement, so log in again every few days until the buttons show.

The status you're hoping for names your school and course, with Accept and Reject buttons sitting right under it.

Step 2, ₦0: how to accept admission on JAMB CAPS

Once those buttons appear, accepting takes five actions. Your phone is enough for all of them.

1. Sign in at efacility.jamb.gov.ng.
2. Click Check Admission Status and open CAPS.
3. Read the institution and course on the offer.
4. Click Accept if they're the ones you want.
5. Return after JAMB has verified your acceptance to pay for and print the letter.

Accept makes the place yours. Reject hands it back and drops your record for that offer to "Not Admitted", so press Reject only when you're completely sure you don't want it.

One exception helps plenty of candidates. Got this year's offer while an older one from a past year still sits pending? You can reject the old offer, and the new one stays untouched.

Step 3, ₦2,200: paying for and printing the letter and result slip

Money only enters the picture at the printing stage. JAMB sells you two documents here: the admission letter and the original result slip. Each one costs ₦1,000. On top of that, JAMB adds a ₦100 service charge per document, which brings the pair to ₦2,200. Someone may still quote ₦1,500 for the result slip, and that's an old price.

This is how to print JAMB admission letter and result slip copies once JAMB has verified your acceptance. Sign in to e-Facility, open the admission letter service and pay on the payment page. After paying, go back into that same service and print. Then run the whole loop again for the original result slip, because each document is a separate purchase.

Paying from a phone works fine. Your school, though, will want paper copies at clearance. Pay only inside your own e-Facility account and never into a stranger's personal account. Without a printer at home, ask the cybercafé its price before they hit print, since it changes from one street to the next.

Adding up the bill: ₦2,200 to ₦7,550 before school fees

Here's the full cost for this year's candidate, from the Accept click to the clearance desk. Prices as at 13 October 2026.

If your school wants to see your O'level result at clearance, you can buy the WAEC result checker PIN on AidaPay.

Take a candidate whose school asks for a WAEC check. Add the PIN to JAMB's two fees and the bill reaches ₦7,550. That's still before printing. It's also before the school's own acceptance fee, which goes to the school rather than JAMB and differs widely from one institution to the next, so open your school's portal for the exact amount.

If the Accept button or payment fails

Most hold-ups at this stage have a simple fix. A missing Accept button means your status still reads "Admission in Progress" or "Not Admitted", and the only cure is to keep checking every few days. Seeing the wrong school or course? Leave Accept alone until you're sure, because Reject hands the place back. And if anyone asks you to pay into a personal account, refuse. JAMB money goes in through your own e-Facility account and nowhere else.

What doing nothing costs instead

Ignore this year's offer for four weeks and your school can ask JAMB to delete it. You'd lose the place and land in JAMB's "refusal to accept" group.

Old offers carry their own price. One left pending past 30 November 2026 reverts to "Not Admitted", and getting it back later means a penalty fee on top of the usual charges.

Starting over is dearer still. UTME registration alone costs ₦3,500, before the CBT centre adds its own charge. That beats JAMB's letter and slip put together. Your parents will notice the lost year long before they notice the money.

Schools close their lists on a calendar, too. Public universities wrap up this year's admissions by the end of October. Private universities follow at the end of November, while polytechnics and colleges of education have until the end of December.

So log in and accept today, then wait for verification before you pay the two JAMB fees, print both documents and carry them to clearance. Keep some cheap data for portal logins on the phone you'll use. You'll be signing in more than once.

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Published 13 October 2026. Prices and codes change - if you spot one that has moved, tell us and we will fix it.