US agency ranks AAUA best state varsity in Nigeria

The United States (US) Transparency International Standards (USTIS) has ranked the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, the best state university in Nigeria.

The result was contained in the preliminary results from the USTIS 2013 Coordinated Nigeria Schools’ Survey, the body’s school ranking initiative.

Only last month, the university came first nationally in the 2013 Annual Youth Debate for Nigerian tertiary institutions, organised by the Federal Ministry of Education.
 
The National Universities Commission (NUC) also voted it ‘the Best State University in 2005’ in terms of the quality of academic staff, after conducting its (NUC’s) carrying-capacity survey in 2015.
 
Adekunle Ajasin University came into world reckoning following the strategic initiative of the incumbent Vice Chancellor, Professor Femi Mimiko, who has built the structure of his administration on “building a 21st Century University, properly called!.” Through the initiative, the university, which relocated to a temporary site in 1999, has drastically developed its infrastructure and academic programmes.
 
Between 2010 when Professor Mimiko took office and now, the university has taken delivery of over 60 projects as a deliberate attempt to address the acute challenges of space.