Adekunle Ajasin University was first established as Obafemi Awolowo University in March 1982 by the government of the old Ondo State, headed by the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin. The immediately succeeding military government of Navy Commodore Michael Bamidele Otiko changed its name to Ondo State University in 1985. Its relocation to Akungba Akoko in the new Ondo State became imperative in 1999, following the creation of a new state out of the old Ondo three years earlier in October 1996. The bill backing the relocation was signed into law by the then Governor of the State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, in November 1999, and that prompted the movement of a crop of workers from the old site in Ado-Ekiti to Akungba Akoko on 1 December 1999. The bill for yet another name change, this time to Adekunle Ajasin University, in order to immortalize the late Governor Ajasin, was signed into law by Governor Adefarati in 2004 following the demise of the former. The amended and subsisting statute of the university was signed into law in November 2007 by yet another governor, the former Governor Olusegun Agagu. In these circumstances, it can rightly be said that while the history of AAUA started in 1982, its relocation on 5 November 1999 marked the beginning of the second phase of its history now in its present location, Akungba Akoko.

Academics

Adekunle Ajasin University offers undergraduate and post-graduate as well as Pre-degree, JUPEB programmes in fields of specialization ranging from Science, Arts, Education, Law, Social and Management sciences, Agricultural Science, Environmental Design, and Management.

Faculty offered

  • Accounting
  • Adult Education
  • Architecture
  • Arts Education
  • Animal and Environmental Biology
  • Agricultural Economics and Extension
  • Agronomy
  • Animal Science
  • Banking and Finance
  • Biochemistry
  • Business Administration
  • Chemical Sciences
  • Computer Science
  • Commercial and Industrial Law
  • Criminology and Security Studies
  • Science Education
  • Economics
  • Educational Management
  • English Studies
  • Earth Sciences
  • Estate Management
  • Forestry and Wildlife Management
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • Geography and Planning Science
  • Guidance and Counselling
  • History and International Studies
  • Human Kinetics and Health Education
  • Industrial Chemistry
  • International Law
  • Jurisprudence and International Law
  • Linguistics and Languages
  • Mathematic Sciences
  • Mass Communication
  • Microbiology
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Physics and Electronics
  • Physical and Health Education
  • Plant Science and Biotechnology
  • Political Science and Public Administration
  • Private and Property Law
  • Public Law
  • Pure and Applied Psychology
  • Quantity Surveying
  • Religion and African Culture
  • Science Education
  • Social Science Education
  • Sociology
  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Vocational and Technical Education