The University of Calabar - also known as UNICAL - is a university situated in Calabar, Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria. It is one of Nigerian's second generation universities. The University of Calabar was a campus of the University of Nigeria until 1975. The architecture was designed by John Elliott. It was established by decree to fulfill this traditional mandate, its motto “Knowledge for Service”.

The Vice Chancellor is Prof James Epoke. The Registrar is Dr. Mrs. Julia Omang. The University of Calabar was one of the foremost Nigerian Universities to automate students' registration processes through the College Portal,[1] and has taken a step further to automate her alumni relations which includes an online transcript request and processing first of its kind in the country.[2]

The male students are known as Malabites, while the female students are Malabresses. The male hostel is called Malabor. This was a result of challenges faced by the students at a time which coincided with the suffering experienced at Malabor by Nigerian deportees from Equatorial Guinea at that time(whose capital is Malabor)

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