Obafemi Awolowo University

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Obafemi Awolowo University

Motto:	For Learning and Culture
Established:	1962
Type:	Public
Vice-Chancellor:	Professor Mike O. Faborode
Location:	Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria
Website:	http://www.oauife.edu.ng

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is a government-owned and operated Nigerian university, The university is located in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1962 as the University of Ife, and was renamed Obafemi Awolowo University in May 1987 in honor of Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987), the first Nigerian premier of the Western Region of Nigeria who was also the university's founding statesman and first Chancellor.

Popularly called "Africa's most beautiful campus", the university is endowed with a beautiful architectural masterpiece and an eye catching landscape.^{[citation needed]} The university has also remained consistently one of the best in Nigeria.^{[citation needed]}

The university has active alumni groups outside Nigeria the foremost being the Great Ife Alumni Association of the United States of America, headquartered in Houston, Texas, which spearheaded the now traditional biennial reunions of the alumni for the primary purpose of raising funds for the development of the alma mater.

Obafemi Awolowo University offers undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in various fields of specialization spanning the humanities, the arts, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the medical sciences, engineering and technology.

The university currently has 13 faculties, and two colleges - the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences, administered in more than 60 departments.