University of Ibadan

The University of Ibadan is Nigeria's oldest 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.

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Nigeria - Ibadan

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The University was founded on its own site on the 17th of November 1948, although the first students had begun 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. A 500 bed teaching hospital was added in 1957. Ibadan became an independent university in 1962

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1948 - University of London - 1957 - 1962

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Besides the College of Medicine, there are now ten other faculties: Arts, Science, Agriculture and Forestry, the Social Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine, Technology, Law, Public Health, and Dentistry.

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The University has residential and sports facilities for Staff and Students on Campus, as well as a Botanical and a separate Zoological Garden.

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