page_title: Obafemi Awolowo University
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: Obafemi Awolowo University / Academics
caption_attribution_description: College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
context_page_description: Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly known as University of Ife, is a federal government owned and operated Nigerian university. The university is in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1961 and classes commenced in October 1962 as the University of Ife by the regional government of Western Nigeria, led by late chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, and was renamed Obafemi Awolowo University on 12 May 1987 in honour of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, first premier of the Western Region of Nigeria, whose brainchild the university was.
context_section_description: Obafemi Awolowo University offers undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in fields of specialization spanning the humanities, the arts, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the medical sciences, engineering and technology.
  The university has 13 faculties and two colleges — the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences —  administered in more than 60 departments. It was previously associated with Loma Linda University in California, USA.
caption: Faculty of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
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