JAMB Subject Combinations for UTME and DE Candidates (All Courses) 2026

Students preparing to take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) sometimes encounter problems with the JAMB CBT UTME courses, admission requirements, and their various subject combinations. This comprehensive post clarified this issue and many others.

We have always urged candidates to begin treating this subject combination issue extremely seriously because it has the potential to either make or break their chances of enrolling in the desired course at the universities they have chosen.

The JAMB subject combinations provided here are applicable not just to universities, as others have always misconceived them to be, but also to polytechnics and colleges of education.

These subject combinations must be met in order to be admitted to the program of study at any Nigerian tertiary institution.

During UTME registration, subject combinations assist students in determining which of the subjects are necessary for a certain course in order to be admitted into the desired institution; they are essentially a guide to help applicants sit for the appropriate examination.

The following inquiries occasionally appear in our comment section:

(1) What is JAMB UTME subject combination for Law?

(2) What is JAMB UTME subject combination for Accounting?

(3) What is JAMB UTME subject combination for Medicine and Surgery?

(4) What is JAMB UTME subject combination for Petroleum, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering?

(5) Subject combinations for Political Science? 

(6) Subject combinations for for Public Administration?

The above questions list could go on and on, but with the well-detailed information below, the questions above have all been answered, so all the applicant or student needs to do is read carefully in order to channel his or her study towards the subject combination for the proposed course of study.

Here we have it: the subject combination for all courses in the 2026/2027 academic session.

LIST OF JAMB CBT UTME COURSES AND THEIR SUBJECT COMBINATIONS

Business Administration:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics and any other Social Science subject.

Public Administration:

• Use of English, Government, Economics and any other subject.

Banking and Finance:

• Use of English, Mathematics, one Social Science subject and any other subject.

Economics:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics and any of Government, History, Geography, Literature in English, French and CRK/IRK.

Demography and Social Statistics:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics/ Geography and any other subject.

Geography:

• Use of English, Geography and two other Arts or Social Science subjects.

Library Science:

• Use of English and Any three Arts or Social Science subjects.

Mass Communication:

• Use of English and any three from Arts or Social Science subjects.

Sociology:

• Use of English, Three Social Science or Arts subjects.

Political Science:

• Use of English, Government or History plus two other Social Science/Arts subjects.

Philosophy:

• Use of English, Government and any other two subjects.

Psychology:

• Use of English, Any three subjects from Arts or Social Science.

Religious Studies:

• Use of English Language, CRK/IRS and any two other subjects.

Social Works:

• Use of English Language, Mathematics, Economics/Geography and any other subject.

Accountancy:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics and any other Social Science subject.

Sociology and Anthropology:

• Use of English, Three Social Science or Arts Subjects.

Industrial Relations:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics plus one other relevant subject.

Human Resources Management:

• Use of English, Economics, Government and any other relevant subjects.

International Relations:

• Use of English, Economics, Literature-in-English and Geography/Government/History.

Business Management:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics and one other subject.

Cooperative and Rural Development:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics plus one other subject.

Tourism:

• English, Mathematics, Economics and any other subject.

Marketing:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics plus one other relevant Subject.

Insurance:

• English, Mathematics, Economics and one other subject.

JAMB SUBJECT COMBINATION FOR ALL SCIENCE COURSES

Food, Science and Technology:

• Use of English, Chemistry, Mathematics/Physics and Agric Science.

Pharmacy:

• Use of English, Biology. Physics and Chemistry.

Industrial Chemistry:

• Use of English, Chemistry, Mathematics and any of Physics/Biology/Agricultural Science.

Fisheries:

• Use ofEnglish, Chemistry, Biology/Agricultural Science and any other Science subject.

Geology:

• Use of English and Mathematics or any three of Chemistry. Physics, Biology and Geography.

Geography:

• Use of English, Geography and any two of Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Agricultural Science.

Medicine and Surgery:

• Use of English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Agricultural Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Computer Science:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and one of Biology, Chemistry, Agric Science, Economics and Geography.

Biochemistry:

• Use of English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Biological Sciences:

• Use of English, Biology, Chemistry and Physics or Mathematics.

Physics/lndustrial physics:

• Use of English, Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry or Biology.

Mathematics:

• Use of English, Mathematics and any two of Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Biology and Agricultural Science.

Chemistry:

• Use of English, Chemistry and two of Physics, Biology and Mathematics.

Nursing:

• Use of English, Physics, Biology and Chemistry.

Surveying and Geoinformatics:

• Use of English, Physics, Mathematics, and any of Chemistry, Geography, Art, Biology and Economics.

Statistics:

• Use of English, Mathematics and any two (2) of Physics, Chemistry and Economics.

Building:

• Use of English, Physics, Mathematics, and any of Chemistry, Geography, Art, Biology and Economics.

Microbiology:

• Use of English, Biology, Chemistry and either Physics or Mathematics.

Veterinary Science:

• English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Forestry:

• Use of English, Chemistry, Biology or Agriculture and Physics or Mathematics.

Civil Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Chemical Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Computer Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Electrical Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Estate Management:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Economics and one other subject.

Anatomy:

• English, Mathematics, Biology and Chemistry or Physics.

Dentistry:

• Use of English, Chemistry, Biology and one Science subject.

Medical Laboratory Science:

• English Language, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Medical Rehabilitation:

• Use of English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Physiology:

• Use of English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Electronic Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Marine Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Mechanical Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Petroleum and Gas Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Systems Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Structural Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Production and Industrial Engineering:

• Use of English, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Architecture:

• English, Physics, Mathematics, and any of Chemistry, Geography, Art, Biology and Economics.

Quantity Surveying:

• Use of English, Physics, Mathematics, and any of Chemistry, Geography, Art, Biology and Economics.

Urban and Regional Planning:

• English, Mathematics, Geography and one of Economics, Physics, Chemistry.

Physiotherapy:

• Use of English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Radiography:

• Use of English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Veterinary Medicine:

• Use of English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

JAMB SUBJECT COMBINATION FOR ALL ART COURSES

French:

• English, French and any other two subjects from Arts and Social Sciences.

English Language:

• Use of English, Lit.-in-English, one other Arts subject and another Arts or Social Science subject.

Hausa:

• English, Hausa, Literature in English and any of Economics, Government, History and Arabic.

History and International Studies:

• Use of English, History/Government and any other two subjects from Arts & Social Science.

Islamic Studies:

• English, Islamic Religious Studies plus two other Arts subjects.

Igbo:

• English, Igbo and two subjects from Arts and social Sciences.

Mass Communication:

• Use of English, Any three Arts and Social Science subjects.

Music:

• Use of English, Music, one other Arts subject plus any other subject.

Philosophy:

• Use of English, Any three subjects.

Arabic and Islamic Studies:

• Use of English, Arabic and Two subjects from Arts and/or Social Sciences.

Christian Religious Studies:

• Use of English, Two Arts subjects including Christian Religious Knowledge and any others subject.

Fine and Applied Arts:

• Use of English Language, Fine Art and two other Arts subjects or Social Science subject.

Theatre Arts:

• Use of English, Lit. in English and two other relevant subjects.

Linguistics:

• Use of English, Two relevant Arts subjects and any other subject.

English and International Studies:

• Use of English, Literature in English, Government or History or any other Arts subjects.

Religious Studies:

• English, CRK/IRS and any two other subjects.

Yoruba:

• Use of English, Yoruba and two other subjects in Arts or Social Sciences.

Anthropology:

• Use of English, Any three of History, CRK/IRK, Geography, Economics, Literature in English and French.

Criminology and Security Studies:

• English, Economics, Government, and any one of the following: History, Geography, Literature in English, French, IRK, Hausa.

Law:

• English, Literature, Economics and any other Art Subject.

Civil Law:

• English Language and Any three Arts or Social Science subjects.

Islamic/Sharia Law:

• Use of English Language and Any three Arts or Social Science subjects including Arabic or Islamic Studies.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

As stated above, English is a compulsory subject for every course in Nigerian universities. Also note that the English language is compulsory for all courses.

I hope you got what you came here for. If you have any question(s) as regards the JAMB UTME SUBJECT COMBINATION for all courses, kindly scroll down to the comment section below, post your question(s), and we will respond in no time.