University of Ibadan is the oldest University in Nigeria, it is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan, one of the Nigerian Oldest cities in Western part of the country, the capital city of Oyo State. It has over 12,000 students.
UI, as the University is fondly referred to, owes its unique character to a combination of historical, geographical, cultural and architectural factors. Its history is a chronicle of the first citadel of higher education established in the country in 1948 as a college of the University of London. It became a full-fledged independent university in 1962, two years after the country’s independence from Britain in 1960. It took off with degree programmes in medicine, basic sciences, arts, social sciences and education. It is now a comprehensive university with additional programmes in agriculture and forestry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, technology and law. From students enrolment of 144 in 1948 the population of students increased steadily to approximately 18,000 in 2005/2006 session with 35% postgraduate and 65% undergraduate.
History of the School
University College, Ibadan, was founded in 1948. At first, it occupied the old site previously used by the 56th Military General Hospital about eight kilometers away from the ‘new’ or permanent site. The new site covered over 1,032 hectares of land generously leased by the chiefs and people of Ibadan for 999 years. With equipment transferred from Yaba Higher College, the 104 foundation students (including 49 students in teacher training and survey courses) began their courses at Ibadan, on 18 January, 1948; the formal opening took place on 25 March, 1948. In February, 1948, London University allowed Ibadan its special relationship scheme. Arthur Creech Jones, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, and an influential member of the Elliot Commission, turned the first sod at the permanent site of the University College, on 17 November, 1948, which became the Foundation Day.
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, well-to-do Africans in Lagos met the need for higher education by sending their children overseas for professional training. Some of these returned to press for the establishment of institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. Not much progress was made until the 1930s. In Nigeria, the Yaba Higher College (established in 1932, but formally opened in 1934) and the Yaba Medical School (established in 1930), which granted diplomas and certificates in selected subjects, hardly satisfied the aspirations of those who longed for university education
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postgraduate Study at University of Ibadan
In order to administer the higher degree programme, the Senate of the University of Ibadan created the Higher Degrees Committee on 28 January 1963, and charged it with the responsibility of considering recommendations from the Faculty Boards on matters relating to the pursuit of higher degrees at the university. As time went and the number of higher degrees students increased, it was found that the cumbersome procedure involved in processing postgraduate matters from Faculty Boards of Studies through Faculty Boards to the Higher Degrees Committee and, finally, to Senate was delaying recommendations, which often took as long as a year to get to Senate. As a result of recommendations from the Faculty Boards and the Higher Degrees Committee, Senate in 1970 established the Board of the Postgraduate Studies to replace the Higher Degrees Committee. This new Board was given the power to exercise its own initiative in the development of postgraduate work in the university.
In the 1975/76 session, the Federal Government through the National Universities Commission designated University of Ibadan a centre of excellence for postgraduate enrolment to cater for the academic staff requirements of the newly established universities and other national and international obligations. On June 28, 1976, Senate approved the reorganization of the Board of Postgraduate Studies, and upgraded it in status to the School of Postgraduate Studies.
The Postgraduate School, as it is presently structured, was approved by Senate (Senate Paper No. 2618 of 29th May 1978). Postgraduate teachers are based in the University departments and their inputs into the decision-making processes of the Postgraduate School are made through their respective Deans and Sub-Deans (Postgraduate) of Faculties Representatives, and the Heads of Departments who are the Chief Examiners of departmental postgraduate examinations.
Contact Details
Email Address:
inforeg@mail.ui.edu.ng
Vice Chancellors Office:
+234-2-810-3168
Registrar’s Office:
+234-2-810-2462
Fax:
+234-2-810-3043
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