Obafemi Awolowo University

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Obafemi Awolowo University
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founding 1962
place Ile-Ife , Osun (State) , Nigeria
Students 31,846 total, 3,088 postgraduate (2005/06)
Employee 1,066 scientific staff (2005/06)
including professors 265 (2005/06)
Website www.oauife.edu.ng

The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is a public university in Nigeria . It is located in the old cultural town of Ile-Ife in the state of Osun and is one of the older Nigerian universities .

The college was founded in 1962 as the University of Ife . After the death of the former Prime Minister of West Nigeria and first university president Obafemi Awolowo in 1987, it was named after him in his honor.

In 2005/06, a total of 31,846 students were enrolled (3,088 as postgraduate ). The university employed 1,066 teaching staff, including 265 professors, assistant professors and readers . A government commission criticized in 2012 that there were more senior administrators at the university than teaching staff.

campus

  • OAU campus

  • Teaching hospital

  • OAU Faculty of Medicine

  • OAU campus

  • Natural history museum on campus completed in 2011

  • Natural History Museum, inside

There are 12 faculties and two colleges, the doctoral college and the college of medical sciences.

The campus covers an area of ​​approx. 49 km² and is also home to other institutions such as B. RECTAS and the Teaching Hospital. Three mountains, a reservoir and fish ponds and several villages are also on the site.

organization

Faculties

  • Agriculture and forest sciences
  • Arts
  • medicine
  • Clinical medicine
  • Dentistry
  • pedagogy
  • Environmental engineering and management
  • law Sciences
  • pharmacy
  • Natural sciences
  • Social sciences
  • technology

Institutes

  • Agricultural research and teaching
  • Cultural studies
  • African languages
  • Ecology and environmental studies

Web links

Commons : Obafemi Awolowo University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Deficits in Academic Staff Capacity at African and Challenges of Developing and Retaining the Next Generation of Academics ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. By Wisdom J. Tettey (University of Calgary) Commissioned by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, 2009 (data from OAU Digest of Statistic 2005-2006 ( Memento of October 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / carnegie.org
  2. ^ A b Brief History of the University OAU website
  3. ^ Committee on Needs Assessment of Nigerian Public Universities (Mahmood Yakubu) Presentation to the Council Chamber State House, Abuja, November 1, 2012
  4. ↑ http://www.rectas.org/ Regional Center for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS)

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