The University of Ibadan is currently the best higher education institution in Nigeria and here are five facts you should know about the first university.
The University of Ibadan was recently in the news again for being the best University in Nigeria.
The raking web in its January edition of university ranking rates the Premier University as the best in Nigeria based on web presence and impact.
Prior to the latest ranking, the 70-year-old institution has always made the top 10 African universities in Webometrics ranking.
This institution according to its Vice Chancellor, Prof Idowu Olayinka is the only school all Nigerians have attended either directly or indirectly.
''This is because if you did not attend UI, you must have been taught somewhere by someone who attended UI or who was taught by someone who trained in UI''.
However, the management of the university envisions it to become one of the top 100 in the world.
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While this is the goal of the foremost higher education institution in Nigeria, here are five things you probably didn't know about the University of Ibadan.
1. The University of Ibadan popularly known as UI started with 104 students in 1948.
2. The first site of the university at Eleyele in Ibadan was previously used by the Military camp during the Second World War.
3. UI started with only three faculties which are Arts, Science, and Medicine
4. This institution is also the first Nigerian university to make the top 1000 in Times Higher Education rankings.
5. The University Library is named after the first Vice-Chancellor, Kenneth Dike, a Historian who left the University of Ibadan for Harvard during Civil War.
Apart from the webometric ranking which acknowledges the institution as the best university in Nigeria, University of Ibadan has proved its worth as the first institution in the country.
Most of the first generation literary icons in Nigeria are graduates of this university. The likes of Wole Shoyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Elechi Amadi, Niyi Osundare, JP Clark are all products of the University of Ibadan.
University of Ibadan: 5 things you probably didn't know about UI
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