The university is ranked 304 in the world .

Oduduwa University offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study.

Oduduwa University is located in Ipetumodu, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.


Chancellor: Dr. Rahmon Adedoyin

Dr. Ramon Adedoyin is the President and chancellor of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State,Our Saviour’s University, Delware, United States of America and unique university in ghana.

About it's founder:

Dr Adedoyin is a man who has turned passion to wealth, like some other rich people who are self-made.

Except for the retinue of aides and his dress sense, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, the president and founder of five tertiary institutions within and outside Nigeria and the CEO of hospitality, security and medical outfits, would pass for just anybody on the street. The fact that he smells opulence would make you look at him more than once.


He grew up in a polygamous home, a lifestyle that toughened and prepared him for future challenges. According to the High Chief, getting to this level was not idyllic. It is common among the successful people to say that they had an humble beginning. Adedoyin insisted that it was not as if his parents were rich, but they could meet his needs. “Oh! I come from a very good family. Though my father died when I was seven years old, my mother was comfortable at that time, selling some items.”

Adedoyin whose monthly wage bill is now N28 million.that fate brought him to where he is right now. His first contact with education was his enrolment into Ile Kewu , a koranic school, at Maha-Had Islamic Foundation, Isale Alfa, Ibadan in 1960. His formal education, however, started in Ansar-Islam Primary School in Ile-Ife (1961-1969).

He also attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife (1970-1974), and Muslim Grammar School, Odinjo, Ibadan (1975-1976).

He still remembers very vividly how he lost his father at age seven and how he had to battle with difficulties of life. According to him, his was a polygamous house and his father left 26 children when he died. After the demise of the old man, it became everyone for himself, the survival of the fittest, as his mother was left with the onus of single-handedly taking care of him.

“It was at this time that things became extremely difficult for my mother to pay my school fees, especially when I wanted to sit for my West African School Certificate Examination, (WASCE). She had to sell a few of her property to pay for my examination.”

Loathing laziness, after he completed his secondary education, he started teaching, though he had an opportunity to do something else, but preferred teaching just because he didn’t want to put on tie. “Well, maybe that was how God wanted it. Really, after I finished my secondary school, I got a job in an insurance company and they told me that I needed to put on tie and suit, but I wondered why I should do that when I was not a big man! I didn’t like it at all. So, I preferred teaching in a primary school to working in an insurance company. Maybe God planned it that I would be a teacher all my life; so, that could be the reason He directed my steps that way,” he recalled.

Getting admission into university was a tug of war. He sat for entrance exams twice before he got admission into the university.

Currently, he has a doctoral degree in Mathematics and Education from All Saint’s University of America, New York, United States of America. He is also a visiting professor in one of the universities outside the country.

Probably, he would not have had tertiary education but by a chanced encounter with a man. How? Music was an attraction and as a young man, Adedoyin got attracted to music and he would have become a musician but for the encounter that changed his destiny. .”I was copying the late Fela Anikulapo- Kuti and even now, I still love him. One day, a traditional ruler( now of blessed memory) visited my mother and found out that there was a nuisance in the compound who was always disturbing the house with drumming and noise, claiming to be a musician.

”But really, that was me! That was me then. So, he asked me why I was not in school. I told him that I had ‘F9’ in all my subjects in the ‘O’ Level examinations. So, he took me in his car to the secondary school where I finished from, Muslim Grammar School. When we got there, he asked for my result and I gave him. He was shocked to find out that I actually had ‘Al’ in all my subjects, including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. So, from there, he took me to the University of Ibadan to obtain a form. That was where my ambition to become a musician died! Then, I began to think of studying Medicine,” he said smiling.

Unfortunately, he could not get admission to study medicine. ”The following year, I went to the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), obtained the form and sat for the examination to study Mechanical Engineering. But I was still not offered admission. So, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, advised me to choose another course, though he admitted that my result was good. But I told him I didn’ t want to be a teacher. He said my result was good. That was how I accepted to study Mathematics and Education”.

As an undergraduate, he augmented his mother’s contribution by teaching Mathematics by private arrangement. He recalled:“There was this Professor who invited me to teach his children Mathematics, having studied my performance. As I started doing that, another Professor also invited me. So, that was how I discovered that I was a good teacher. I believe this was what brought me to what I am doing today. Therefore, immediately I graduated, I never wanted to do anything other than ‘home lesson’.”

Having graduated in Mathematics Education, he put what he learnt in the university into practice; he started what later became the popular Universal Tutorial College, Ile-Ife. So, what many see today as big institutions was started as a lesson at the back of Adedoyin’s mother’s house. “I put up a makeshift classroom in our backyard where I was teaching people Mathematics. I also put up a beautiful signboard outside the house. When some people came, they thought we were using the entire house as the school. So, people started coming to my coaching centre,” he explained.

He had competitors too because many thought he was big and making so much money. “In our street alone, we had more than 10 schools that later sprang up. But I think it is God’s calling to have started like that. Some people saw what I was doing and they set up their own side-by-side. But today, I still have my own, which has metamorphosed into a university.”

He is proud to declare that while many think that the reward of teachers are in heaven, he has got his own reward right here on earth and he is comfortable. “It is said that when you are a teacher, and the chalk touches your hair, you will not make it. But today, I’m a billionaire; there is no doubt about it. I was almost blaming God for not allowing me to do what I had wanted to do (music), not knowing that He (God) had planned that I would be a class teacher,” he said.

Adedoyin, who is has many titles which was conferred on him Oba Okunade Sijuade, the Ooni of Ife, does not see impossibilities; rather, he sees possibilities in everything. The success of both the Universal College and The Polytechnic emboldened him to conceive the idea of a university. The dream became a reality when on November 3, 2009, he got the licence to operate a private university in Nigeria. And the institution has become a success.

Though he is into other businesses, he prefers to be seen more from educational perspective. “I prefer to be identified with education. I handed the hotel business over to my wife to manage.


In oduduwa University, we do more of teaching than lecturing, making use of diverse teaching mechanisms and apparatus.

All courses are taught by more than a single lecturer, among whom we have distinguished faculties in their fields of study.

DID YOU KNOW…?


Ranks - 304 in the world (Times Higher Education THEWUR2020)

Ranks No. 18 University in Africa (Times Higher Education THEWUR2020)

Ranks No. 9 University in West Africa (Times Higher Education THEWUR2020)

West Africa’s leading University in Research, Industry Partnerships, International Outlook and Teaching

Ranks No. 6 University in Nigeria (Times Higher Education THEWUR2020)

Oduduwa university Emerged Best Nigerian Varsity in Association of Professional Women in Engineering (APWEN) Projects Contest (2020)


Oduduwa won Pan-African Universities Debates 2018

Oduduwa Best Entrepreneurship Development University of the Year (2019)

Oduduwa: Nigeria’s Most Outstanding Higher Institution of the Year 2019

Oduduwa won World Bank Grant for hosting Africa Centre of Excellence (2019)

Oduduwa won Enactus Nigeria National Competition (2019)

Oduduwa Graduate Bagged Presidential Award for Outstanding National Service (2019)

African Development Bank’s Centre of Excellence and partner on the Coding for Employment Project (2018)

Best university in entrepreneurship training.

Over 1000first class students with good landmarks.

And that is why you found out graduates in good fields.

Oduduwa university is located at ipetumodu roundabout,ile-ife. Osun state.

It's not only 304 in the world, it is 4th in the world.

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Oga, no dey bobo us, your school is yet to even make it to top 100 in Nigeria. Talk more of 304 in the world when UI is still struggling to hit the 1000th position in world ranking.

This is the first time in hearing the name

I was even thinking you were referring to all the universities in the S/W

Intending parents that may want to send there children to the school shld do dre research properly before sending there wards there.

That's my little advice.

V u google it?.. Plz do.. Oduduwa university is 304in the world now

Orlaoluwayimika:
Intending parents that may want to send there children to the school shld do dre research properly before sending there wards there.

That's my little advice.

Parent should not miss this school.. I finished from there. Now working in a financial institution

Use Google pls

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Parent should not miss this school.. I finished from there. Now working in a financial institution

Abegiii u re only doing ur work as a PR person

Do u want me to say what I know about the school and her sister school The Poly Ife.

Alert intending parents should pls do proper research before sending their wards to this school.