University of Ibadan

Vision
To be a world-class institution for academic excellence geared towards meeting societal needs.

Mission

• To expand the frontiers of knowledge through provision of excellent conditions for learning and research.
• To produce graduates who are worthy in character and sound judgement.
• To contribute to the transformation of society through creativity and innovation.
• To serve as a dynamic custodian of society's salutary values and thus sustain its integrity.

The University of Ibadan 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 has over 12,000 students.

Besides the College of Medicine, there are now ten 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.

History:

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. The site of the University was leased to the colonial authorities by Ibadan native chiefs for 999 years.The first students began courses in January of that year. Arthur Creech Jones, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, inaugurated the new educational institution.

The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London, then it was called the University College, Ibadan. Some of the original buildings were designed by the English modernist architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew.[4] A 500-bed teaching hospital was added in 1957. The University of Ibadan became an independent university in 1962.

In late 1963, on the University playing fields, with the 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 University of Ibadan's library is named.

Halls of residence

• Mellanby Hall (male, undergraduate)
• Queen Elizabeth II Hall (female, undergraduate)
• [Tedder] Hall (male, undergraduate)
• Sultan Bello Hall (male, undergraduate)
• Kuti Hall (male, undergraduate)
• Queen Idia Hall (female, undergraduate)
• Obafemi Awolowo Hall (mixed, undergraduate and postgraduate)
• Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall (male, undergraduate)
• Independence Hall (male, undergraduate)
• Tafawa Balewa Hall (mixed, postgraduate)
• Alexander Brown Hall (mixed, clinical medical, dental and physiotherapy students)
• Abdulsalam Abubakar Hall (mixed, postgraduate

The strategic vision of the PAU is to develop institutions of excellence in science, technology, innovation, social sciences and governance, which would constitute the bedrock for an African pool of higher education and research. This would usher in a new generation of leaders properly trained to take the best advantage of African human and material resources, imbued with a common vision of a peaceful, prosperous and integrated Africa.

University of Ibadan Degree Programs :

Medicine

Dentistry

Public Health

Video Presentation

University of Ibadan, Master's in Development Practice Program

Interview with Labode Popoola, dean of the Postgraduate School at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, about the Master's in Development Practice (MDP) program.MDP degree programs provide rigorous professional training for future leaders in the field of sustainable development.