Talking of the school of Nursing age limit for admissions, one can easily mistake the colleges’ admission policies on age for other institutions. The age requirement for schools/colleges of Nursing admission is different from that of other institutions such as universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and Initiative enterprise institutes.
While there is a minimum age for other conventional institutions, those sets of schools have no maximum age for their admissions. As such, the minimum age for other institutions is 16 years on the first/last day of October according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and a few other institutions.
And as noted, it doesn’t matter your age on admission if you’re above 16 while seeking admission into any other institutions.
However, the schools of Nursing are a bit different. They have both the minimum and maximum age limits for their admissions. While we have a general minimum age, we also have a few of them with variances. Let’s look into the age limit acceptable by various schools of Nursing in Nigeria.
General Minimum Age Requirements For Schools and Colleges of Nursing
According to the Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), the acceptable Minimum Age range for admission into Basic Nursing and Basic Midwifery Training programme is 16.
This is the exact minimum age also by JAMB for universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. But unlike the JAMB minimum age requirements, the council didn’t state a particular month for the age.
In order words, while JAMB and other institutions insist on candidates being 16, at least, at the time of entry or admission processing, the Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria doesn’t specify any month.
Specific Minimum Age By Individual Schools of Nursing
Under normal circumstances, every school of Nursing should comply with the minimum age stated by the Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria. However, the reverse is still the case (at least at the time of this post).
A few schools of Nursing had required more than 16 years in their entrance application adverts. Below are a few to check