Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA) is a state government owned and operated Nigerian university. The university is in Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.
Adekunle Ajasin University was first established as Obafemi Awolowo University in March 1982 by the government of the old Ondo State, headed by the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin. The immediately succeeding military government of Navy Commodore Michael Bamidele Otiko changed its name to Ondo State University in 1985. Its relocation to Akungba Akoko in the new Ondo State became imperative in 1999, following the creation of a new state out of the old Ondo three years earlier in October 1996. The bill backing the relocation was signed into law by the then Governor of the State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, in November 1999, and that prompted the movement of a crop of workers from the old site in Ado-Ekiti to Akungba Akoko on 1 December 1999. The bill for yet another name change, this time to Adekunle Ajasin University, in order to immortalise the late Governor Ajasin, was signed into law by Governor Adefarati in 2004 following the demise of the former. The amended and subsisting statute of the University was signed into law in November 2007 by yet another governor, the former Governor Olusegun Agagu. In these circumstances, it can rightly be said that while the history of AAUA started in 1982, its relocation on 5 November 1999 marked the beginning of the second phase of its history now in its present location, Akungba Akoko.
Adekunle Ajasin University offers undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in fields of specialization ranging from Science, Arts, Education, Law, Social Sciences, Management Sciences and Agricultural Sciences.
The university has 6 faculties which are:
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Social & Management Sciences
Below is the list of departments:
Accounting
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development,
Agricultural Science,
Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology,
Animal Science,
Banking and Finance
Biochemistry,
Botany,
Business Administration
Business Law,
Chemical Engineering,
Chemistry,
Computer Science,
Computer Science Education,
Economics,
Educational Technology,
English Language,
Earth Sciences,
Geography,
History,
International Law,
International Relations,
Jurisprudence and Private Law,
Literature in English,
Mathematics,
Mass Communication
Microbiology,
Chemistry,
Philosophy,
Physics,
Physical and Health Education,
Plant Science,
Political Science,
Criminology,
Psychology,
Public Administration,
Public Law,
Quantity Surveying,
Religious Studies,
Sociology and Anthropology,
Geography and planning science,
Religious and International studies
Zoology.
AAUA’s Sports Complex, provides indoor and out-door sports such as table tennis, badminton, soccer, cricket, judo, track and field events that encourage staff and students to keep fit physically.[5] The centre is equipped with ultra-modern facilities which include a large gymnasium, Standard football pitch, Tennis court, and many other sports. AAUA students participate in competitive sports such as the Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA), West African University’s Games(WAUG).
For more information you can visit AAUA via http://www.aaua.edu.ng/
