Ibadan University
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Former names
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University College Ibadan |
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| Motto | "Recte Sapere Fons" |
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Motto in English
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Right thinking is the fount [of knowledge] |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1948 |
| Chairman | Nde Joshua Mutka Waklek |
| Chancellor | [His Eminence] Alh. Saad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka |
| Students | 33,481 |
| Location | Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria |
| Affiliations |
Association of African Universities (AAU) Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) National Universities Commission (NUC) |
| Website | http://www.ui.edu.ng/ |
Association of African Universities (AAU)
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
The University of Ibadan (UI) is the oldest Nigerian university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria. It is popularly known as Unibadan or UI.
Besides the College of Medicine, there are now 11 other faculties: Arts, Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Social Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine, Technology, Law, Public Health, and Dentistry. The university has residential and sports facilities for staff and students on campus, as well as separate botanical and zoological gardens. In September 2016, it became the first Nigerian university to make the top 1000 in Times Higher Education rankings. Prior to that, it had always made the top African 10 in Webometrics Rankings. Its management envisions UI becoming one of the top 100 universities in the world in the near future.
The origins of the university are in Yaba College, founded in 1932 in Yaba, Lagos,as the first tertiary educational institute in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, becoming the University College of Ibadan, in 1948. The university was founded on its own site on 17 November 1948. In late 1963, on the university playing-fields, with a celebration marked by talking drums, the Rt. Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria, became the first Chancellor of its independent university. The first Nigerian vice-chancellor of the university was Kenneth Dike, after whom the University of Ibadan's library is named.
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