Obafemi Awolowo University

== Academics ==
[[File:Faculty of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (12998041954).jpg|thumb|College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria]]

Obafemi Awolowo University has 13 faculties<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculties|url=http://www.oauife.edu.ng/academics/faculties/|access-date=28 March 2014}}</ref> and two colleges—the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences— which are administered in more than 60 departments. The university offers [[undergraduate]] and [[post-graduate|postgraduate]] programmes in fields of specialization spanning the humanities, arts, natural sciences, social sciences, medical sciences, engineering and technology. It was previously associated with [[Loma Linda University]] in California, US.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mina |title=OAU Department of Education & History Admission Requirement 2022/2023 |url=https://www.realmina.com/oau-department-of-education-history-admission-requirement/ |website=Realmina|date=28 July 2023 }}</ref>

=== JUPEB Programme ===
Obafemi Awolowo University has been a partner University to the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB).<ref>{{cite web|date=2020-11-27|title=Jupeb Partners|url=https://jupeb.edu.ng/about_us/partner_universities|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127192141/https://jupeb.edu.ng/about_us/partner_universities|archive-date=2020-11-27|access-date=2020-11-27}}</ref> JUPEB offers A-Level programs to students seeking admission into Obafemi Awolowo University via direct entry. OAU currently admits students into the JUPEB Program Y.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mc |first=Owoblow |date= 12 December 2023|title=Obafemi Awolowo University OAU JUPEB Admission List 2023/2024 |url=https://o3schools.com/oau-jupeb-admission-list/ |archive-date= |website=O3 schools}}</ref>

=== Library ===

The central library, known as [[Hezekiah Oluwasanmi]] Library, (named after the second Vice-Chancellor, Professor Hezekiah Olusawanmi)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fabunmi |first1=O. M. |last2=Asubiojo |first2=B. O. |title=Awareness and Use of Online Public Access Catalogue by Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. |url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/922 |journal=Library Philosophy and Practice (E-journal) |date=23 April 2013 |publication-date=2013}}</ref> consists of two multi-storey wings in the centre of the campus. It has a seating capacity of 2,500 with the availability of Internet access to books and journals. It is a depository for the publications of the [[United Nations]] and its agencies including [[UNESCO]], [[International Labour Organization|ILO]] and [[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa|ECA]]. The library collection includes over 300,000 titles and 762,000 volumes of monographs, government publications, theses and audio-visual material, in addition to the subscription of over 1,000 journals in hard format.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library|url=http://library.oauife.edu.ng/|publisher=OAU|access-date=27 March 2014}}</ref> The library collection is accessible to users through [[Online public access catalog|Online Public Access Catalogue]] (OPAC) and the library's circulation services are fully computerized. 297,352 records have been converted to electronic format and the digitization of its newspaper collection has been done by [[OCLC|online Computers Library Corporation, Inc.]] of Ohio, US.<ref name="National Universities Commission" /> The university library also enjoyed financial support from the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York|Carnegie Corporation]] for computerization of the library, this gave birth to the opening of the e-library in July 2008 for the use of staff and students of the University.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Omotayo |first=B.O. |title=Access, Use, and Attitudes of Academics toward Electronic Journals: A Case Study of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/335 |journal=Library Philosophy and Practice (E-journal) |date=19 March 2010 |publication-date=2010 |issn=1522-0222}}</ref>
[[File:Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Ile-Ife.jpg|thumb|Hezekiah Oluwasanmi library]]

=== Information Technology and Communications Unit ===

Obafemi Awolowo University has a well-developed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system with its own V-SAT access to the Internet and an efficient Intranet. Virtually every building in the central campus is connected and cybercafés are available in parts of the campus. The internet access bandwidth has been increased from 39 Mbit/s as of October 2011 to 183 Mbit/s. The increase also led to the expansion of the internet facilities to all the halls of residence on campus.<ref name="National Universities Commission" /> The Information Technology and Communications Unit (INTECU) is responsible for developing Obafemi Awolowo University into Nigeria's leading ICT University with a campus-wide network consisting of a fibre optic backbone, 23 intra-networked subnets and wireless access clouds ([[WiFi]]) distributed across the site.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://intecu.oauife.edu.ng/|publisher=INTECU OAU|access-date=27 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622060909/http://intecu.oauife.edu.ng/|archive-date=2013-06-22|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Medical and health facilities ===
[[File:Faculty of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (12997648065).jpg|thumb|upright]]
The medical and health centre provides hazardous primary healthcare services to the community, the poor, and children and adults whose lives are endangered, and provides health education services on demand. It operates a 24-hour service and has 16-bed spaces for admitted patients. Extreme cases are referred to the nearby teaching hospital for intensive care. The health centre is divided into nine functional units.<ref name="National Universities Commission" />

=== Research ===
The medical research facilities are located in the teaching hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, comprising the Ife State Hospital, the Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesha, Comprehensive Health Centres, and the multidisciplinary laboratories at the main University Campus.<ref>nrgrgurdiannews.com. editorial, 18 March 1997</ref>{{full citation needed|date=April 2017}}

The University Teaching Hospital is consistently cited as a highly reputable teaching hospital based on its numerous records. It has served as a training site for Nigerian foreign-trained doctors, who are required to pass the medical licensing examination organized by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.  The operation for the first Siamese twins to be separated in sub-Saharan Africa was carried out at its teaching hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|title=OAU doctors separate Siamese twins|url=http://www.greatifealumni.org/index.php/2012-04-25-14-29-13/featured-university-news/113-awolowo-varsity-doctors-separate-siamese-twins-5-22-2002|access-date=27 March 2014}}</ref> Consequently, the separation of Siamese twins has been successfully carried out on different occasions, while successful cochlear implantation has been performed repeatedly in the [[otorhinolaryngology]] unit.<ref name="National Universities Commission" />

The university pioneered the resuscitation and modernization of the traditional bronze-casting technology.<ref name="theoptimumcareers.com">{{cite web|title=Jobs at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria|url=http://www.theoptimumcareers.com/2010/11/jobs-at-obafemi-awolowo-university-ile.html|access-date=27 March 2014}}</ref> It also pioneered the introduction of entrepreneurship education at the undergraduate level and this has now been adopted nationally and by the [[National Universities Commission]] (NUC).<ref name="National Universities Commission" /> It is the leading [[Information and communications technology|ICT]] University with a bandwidth of 113 Mbit/s as well as a pioneer in iLab. The first iLab in Africa, south of Sahara was developed and established in OAU in collaboration with [[MIT]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Linking African Universities with MIT ILABS|url=http://carnegie.org/publications/carnegie-reporter/single/view/article/item/153/|publisher=Carneige|access-date=27 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320180742/http://carnegie.org/publications/carnegie-reporter/single/view/article/item/153/|archive-date=20 March 2014}}</ref>