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Obafemi Awolowo University
Current page last update date: 2025-07-15
Programs and prices, tuition fees in Obafemi Awolowo University
Program name
date
Age
Fees
Undergraduate
- Dates: year-round.
The university offers undergraduate programs in the following areas:
- Biochemistry
- Botany
- Dermatology and Venereology
- Fine and applied art
- Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Management
- Food Nutrition and Consumer Sciences
- Radiology
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Education Management and Planning
- Chemical pathology
- Environmental Health and Epidemiology
- Economics and others
Master
- Dates: year-round.
The university offers master's programs in the following areas:
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Anesthesia and intensive care
- Hematology and immunology
- Linguistics and African languages
- Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
- Public Health and Nutrition
- Pathological anatomy and forensic examination
- Agricultural and environmental engineering
- Pharmacology
- Surgery
- Environmental Health and Epidemiology
- Jurisprudence and private law, etc.
Doctoral studies
- Dates: year-round.
The university offers master's programs in the following areas:
- Obstetrics, gynecology and perinatology
- Anesthesia and intensive care
- Hematology and immunology
- Urban and regional planning
- Demographics and Social Statistics
- Dermatology and Venereology
- Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
- Medical rehabilitation
- Medical pharmacology and therapy
- International law
- Microbiology
- Orthopedic surgery and traumatology
- Pathological anatomy and forensic examination
- Agricultural expansion and rural sociology, etc.
Description of Obafemi Awolowo University
- Established: 1962
- Type of institution: State Higher Educational Institution
- Location: Ilesha, Nigeria
- Language of instruction: English.
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is one of three universities created in Nigeria between 1961 and 1962 as a result of a report submitted by the commission chaired by Sir Eric Ashby, Master of Clare College (Cambridge), to the federal government in September 1960 to study the needs of secondary and higher education in Nigeria over the next twenty years.
OAU is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
Accommodation, meals, prices
OAU provides a hostel for its students on campus.
Advantages
- According to national rankings, the university takes 4th place among the best universities in the country
- OAU is in 5% of the most famous and prestigious educational institutions in the world
- The university offers distance learning and scholarship programs to its students.
Facilities and equipment at Obafemi Awolowo University
The main campus of the institution is located in Osun, in the city of southwestern Nigeria - Ilesha. The material and technical base of the university includes:
- The library
- Athletic facilities
- Medicines Research and Production Unit (DRPU)
- Cooperative Information Network (COPINE / CICTED)
- Laboratories - Atmospheric Research and Information Analysis (ARIAL), Space Applications and Environmental Sciences (SPAEL)
- Educational Centers - Aerospace, Space Science and Technology in Africa (ARCSSTE)
- Research centers - in energy, technology management, gender research, space research.
Admission dates and extra charges
The university has a two-semester academic year.
Additional expenses:
- The cost of living in Ilesha = $ 355 -708 $ / month.
Entry requirements, how to apply, what is required to enrol
To enter the university, you must fill out an online application and provide documents of previous education.
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Residence permits, citizenship and other services
- Guardianship services during the studies
- Student supervision
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