University of Ibadan

The University of Ibadan (UI) is a federal research university on Oduduwa Road in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, founded in 1948 as University College Ibadan and generally regarded as the country's first university.伊巴丹大学（University of Ibadan，简称 UI）是位于尼日利亚奥约州伊巴丹市奥杜杜瓦路的一所联邦研究型大学，1948 年以伊巴丹大学学院之名创办，通常被视为尼日利亚的第一所大学。

It opened as a college in a special relationship with the University of London, which supervised its courses and conferred its degrees, until the institution became a full and independent university in 1962.该校最初以与伦敦大学建立特殊关系的学院形式办学，课程由伦敦大学监管、学位亦由伦敦大学授予，直至 1962 年成为完全独立的大学。

Teaching is now organised into 17 faculties and 92 academic departments for about 33,000 students, and the university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.学校现设 17 个学院、92 个系，在校生约 33,000 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间。

History

• Nigeria's first tertiary institution, Yaba Higher College, opened in 1932 in Yaba, Lagos, offering post-secondary vocational training and teacher education rather than university degrees.尼日利亚第一所高等教育机构亚巴高级学院于 1932 年在拉各斯亚巴开办，提供中学后职业训练与师资培养，并不授予大学学位。
• Its narrow vocational aims, and nationalist demands for unrestricted higher education, pushed the colonial government to plan a degree-granting college, and the Asquith and Elliot commissions appointed in 1943 recommended two such institutions in West Africa.该校狭窄的职业定位，加上民族主义者对不受限制的高等教育的诉求，促使殖民政府筹划一所可授学位的学院；1943 年组建的阿斯奎斯与艾略特两个委员会建议在西非设立两所此类院校。
• The Elliot Commission reported in 1945 and proposed a university college for Nigeria alongside one for the Gold Coast, with the Nigerian cohort to be built from the staff and students of Yaba Higher College.艾略特委员会于 1945 年提交报告，建议在尼日利亚与黄金海岸各设一所大学学院，其中尼日利亚的首批师生由亚巴高级学院转来。
• Kenneth Mellanby was appointed principal in 1947 and inaugurated University College Ibadan on 18 January 1948, when teaching began in arts, science and medicine.肯尼思·梅兰比于 1947 年获任命为院长，并于 1948 年 1 月 18 日主持伊巴丹大学学院开学，最初开设文科、理科与医学课程。
• The sod of the permanent site was cut on 17 November 1948, a date the university still observes as Founders' Day and marks with lectures, awards and alumni gatherings.永久校址于 1948 年 11 月 17 日破土动工，这一天至今仍是该校的创校纪念日，并以讲座、颁奖与校友聚会等方式庆祝。
• Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew designed the first permanent buildings in the tropical modernist idiom, and the 1950s building programme added administration blocks, residential colleges and teaching facilities.首批永久建筑由马克斯韦尔·弗莱与简·德鲁以热带现代主义风格设计，1950 年代的建设计划又增添了行政楼、住宿学院与教学设施。
• The college was modelled on the British university system, with a senate, a principal's lodge, warden-led halls of residence and a playing field at the centre of student life, a model that survived the transition to a federal university.学院以英国大学制度为蓝本，设有评议会、院长寓所、由舍监管理的住宿学院，以及作为学生生活中心的运动场；这套模式在转为联邦大学后依然延续。
• Under the special relationship scheme the college taught London syllabuses and London awarded its degrees, an arrangement that defined the institution throughout the 1950s and tied its standards to an external examiner system.在特殊关系方案下，学院按伦敦大学的课程大纲教学、学位由伦敦大学颁发，这一安排贯穿整个 1950 年代，并以校外考官制度约束学术标准。
• The University College Hospital opened in 1957 as Nigeria's first teaching hospital, giving the medical school a clinical base on land adjoining the campus and a referral service for the whole region.伊巴丹大学学院医院于 1957 年启用，是尼日利亚第一所教学医院，为医学院提供了紧邻校园的临床基地，并承担面向整个地区的转诊服务。
• The Ashby Commission's 1960 report on post-independence higher education treated Ibadan as its reference institution and paved the way for new universities at Nsukka, Ife, Zaria and Lagos.1960 年阿什比委员会关于独立后高等教育的报告以伊巴丹为参照院校，为在恩苏卡、伊费、扎里亚与拉各斯新建大学铺平了道路。
• In 1962 the institution became a full university by statute and took the name University of Ibadan, ending the formal affiliation with London that had shaped its first fourteen years.1962 年，该校依据法令成为完全意义上的大学并定名伊巴丹大学，与伦敦大学历时十四年的形式隶属关系就此终止。
• In late 1963 Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria, was installed as the university's first Chancellor at a ceremony on the playing fields marked by talking drums.1963 年末，尼日利亚独立后首任总理阿布巴卡尔·塔法瓦·巴勒瓦爵士在运动场举行的典礼上就任该校首任校监，典礼以击鼓为标志。
• Kenneth Dike, the first Nigerian principal and later the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor, gave the university its own academic leadership, and its central library still bears his name.肯尼思·迪克是首位尼日利亚籍院长，后成为首位尼日利亚籍校长，他让学校拥有了自己的学术领导层，其中心图书馆至今以他命名。
• From 1967 the university conferred its own degrees, once the last cohort registered under the London scheme had graduated, and it began building the postgraduate programmes that dominate its output today.1967 年起，随着最后一批按伦敦方案注册的学生毕业，该校开始自行颁发学位，并着手建设如今构成其科研主力的研究生项目。
• The university's 75th anniversary fell in 2023, seventy-five years after the January 1948 inauguration, and was marked as UI@75 across its faculties and alumni branches.该校的七十五周年校庆落在 2023 年，距 1948 年 1 月的开学典礼正好七十五年，各学院与各地校友会以 UI@75 为主题开展纪念活动。
• In August 2011 the Federal Ministry of Education named Ibadan the host of the Pan-African University's Institute of Life and Earth Sciences, known as PAULESI, one of five continental institutes.2011 年 8 月，尼日利亚联邦教育部选定伊巴丹大学承办泛非大学生命与地球科学研究所，简称 PAULESI，是该网络五个大陆级研究所之一。
• In September 2016 it became the first Nigerian university to enter the top 1,000 of the Times Higher Education world rankings, a position it has defended in every edition since.2016 年 9 月，该校成为首所进入泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名前 1000 位的尼日利亚大学，此后各版榜单均守住这一位置。
• Kayode Adebowale took office as Vice-Chancellor in December 2021, succeeding Idowu Olayinka, who had led the university since 2015.卡约德·阿德博瓦莱于 2021 年 12 月就任校长，接替自 2015 年起主持校政的伊多武·奥拉因卡。
• Its College of Medicine was reorganised into four faculties, namely Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Public Health and Dentistry, grouped under a single collegiate structure.该校医学院被重组为基础医学、临床科学、公共卫生与牙科四个学院，统一纳入一个学院制架构之下。
• In July 2024 the documentary Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory, written by Kola Tubosun, examined the campus bungalow where Wole Soyinka lived from about 1967 to 1972.2024 年 7 月，由科拉·图博孙撰写的纪录片《埃布罗希米路：记忆博物馆》上映，聚焦沃莱·索因卡约 1967 至 1972 年间居住的校内平房。
• The university's 629th inaugural lecture was delivered in Trenchard Hall on 15 October 2026, continuing a ceremonial series that is among the oldest in West Africa.该校第 629 场就职演讲于 2026 年 10 月 15 日在特伦查德厅举行，这一系列典礼演讲在西非各校中属于历史最悠久之列。

Academics

• Teaching is delivered through 17 faculties and 92 academic departments, a structure that makes Ibadan one of the most comprehensive universities in Nigeria, having begun in 1948 with only arts, science and medicine.教学通过 17 个学院与 92 个系开展，这一结构使伊巴丹大学成为尼日利亚学科门类最齐全的大学之一；该校 1948 年开学时仅设文科、理科与医学三类课程。
• The faculties are Arts, Science, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Agriculture, the Social Sciences, Education, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy.这些学院包括文学院、理学院、基础医学学院、临床科学学院、农学院、社会科学学院、教育学院、兽医学院与药学院。
• The remaining faculties are Technology, Law, Public Health, Dentistry, Economics and Management Sciences, Renewable Natural Resources, Environmental Design and Management and Multidisciplinary Studies.其余学院为技术学院、法学院、公共卫生学院、牙科学院、经济与管理科学学院、可再生自然资源学院、环境设计与管理学院以及多学科研究学院。
• The four medical faculties form the College of Medicine, which teaches alongside the University College Hospital and runs Nigeria's oldest medical school.四个医学类学院组成医学院，与伊巴丹大学学院医院共同开展教学，并运作着尼日利亚历史最悠久的医学院。
• Clinical teaching is shared with the University College Hospital, a federal tertiary hospital that also runs residency training for doctors, nurses and laboratory scientists from across Nigeria.临床教学与伊巴丹大学学院医院共同承担，该院是联邦三级医院，并为来自尼日利亚各地的医生、护士与检验技师提供住院医师与专科培训。
• Postgraduate work is coordinated by the Postgraduate College, while the Distance Learning Centre and the Open Distance e-Learning platform extend degree programmes to off-campus students.研究生教育由研究生院统筹，远程学习中心与开放式远程电子学习平台则把学位课程延伸至校外学生。
• Stand-alone research bodies include the Institute of African Studies, the Institute of Child Health, the Institute of Education and the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies.独立科研机构包括非洲研究所、儿童健康研究所、教育研究所以及和平与战略研究所。
• Specialist centres include the Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, the Infectious Diseases Institute, the National Institute for Maternal, Child and Neonatal Health and the Centre for Control and Prevention of Zoonosis.专门中心包括高级医学研究与培训研究所、传染病研究所、国家母婴与新生儿健康研究所以及人畜共患病防控中心。
• The Kenneth Dike Library holds about 700,000 volumes and more than 1,250 reader seats, and is open to university staff, students, teaching hospital staff and alumni, making it the largest academic library in the city.肯尼思·迪克图书馆藏书约 700,000 册，设读者座位 1,250 个以上，向该校教职工、学生、教学医院职员及校友开放，是伊巴丹规模最大的高校图书馆。
• The university employs a total staff of 5,339 and maintains 1,212 housing units for senior and junior staff, a legacy of the residential campus model of the 1950s.该校职工总数为 5,339 人，并为高级与初级职员提供 1,212 套住房，这是 1950 年代住宿式校园模式的延续。
• Fifteen halls of residence accommodate roughly 30 per cent of students in the regular mode, and the remainder live in the surrounding private housing of Ibadan.十五座学生宿舍可容纳常规学制约 30% 的学生，其余学生居住在伊巴丹周边的私人出租房。
• Undergraduate admission runs through the national Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and a post-UTME screening, with departmental cut-off marks published each session, and every programme is accredited by the National Universities Commission.本科招生通过全国统一高等教育入学考试与校方组织的复试筛选，各系录取分数线每学年公布；该校所有专业均获尼日利亚大学委员会认证。
• PAULESI, the Pan-African University institute hosted on campus, trains graduate students from across the continent in life and earth sciences and works with the African Union Commission.设于校内的泛非大学生命与地球科学研究所面向全非洲招收研究生，开展生命科学与地球科学训练，并与非洲联盟委员会合作。
• The university also hosts IFRA-Nigeria, the French Institute for Research in Africa, which funds social science and humanities collaboration between French and West African scholars.该校还设有法国非洲研究所尼日利亚分部，资助法国与西非学者在社会科学与人文学科的合作研究。
• OpenAlex indexes 51,312 works and 1,526,548 citations attributable to the university, spanning medicine, agriculture, the social sciences and the humanities.OpenAlex 收录该校 51,312 项研究成果与 1,526,548 次引用，覆盖医学、农业、社会科学与人文学科。
• Interdisciplinary graduate teaching is concentrated in the Centre for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law and the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.跨学科研究生教学主要集中在石油、能源经济与法律中心以及创业与创新中心。
• The Multidisciplinary Central Research Laboratory and the Centre for Drug Discovery, Development and Production serve staff from every faculty, from pharmacy to veterinary medicine.多学科中央研究实验室与药物发现开发生产中心为从药学至兽医学各学院的教师提供平台支持。
• The Centre for General Studies, the Centre for Educational Media Resource Studies and the Yoruba Language Centre provide service teaching in communication, general studies and Nigerian languages to every faculty.通识教育中心、教育媒体资源研究中心与约鲁巴语中心面向全校各学院开设传播、通识与尼日利亚语言类课程。
• A recently established School of Business adds management and entrepreneurship degrees to a portfolio historically centred on medicine, agriculture, law and the arts.新设的商学院在历来以医学、农业、法律与人文学科为主的学科布局中增添了管理与创业类学位。

Campus

• The main campus lies on Oduduwa Road in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, at 7.37756 degrees north and 3.90591 degrees east, roughly 130 kilometres north-east of Lagos.主校区位于奥约州首府伊巴丹的奥杜杜瓦路，地理坐标为北纬 7.37756 度、东经 3.90591 度，距拉各斯约 130 公里。
• The Fry and Drew buildings of the 1950s give the campus its tropical modernist character, and Trenchard Hall serves as its principal ceremonial venue.1950 年代由弗莱与德鲁设计的建筑赋予校园热带现代主义风貌，特伦查德厅则是学校主要的礼仪场所。
• The Kenneth Dike Library stands beside the Faculty of Arts at the centre of the campus, and its reading rooms are the busiest study space in the university.肯尼思·迪克图书馆位于校园中心、文学院旁，其阅览室是全校使用最密集的学习空间。
• Fifteen named halls include Lord Tedder, Kenneth Mellanby, Sultan Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Independence, Tafawa Balewa, Kuti, Queen Idia and Queen Elizabeth halls.十五座具名宿舍包括特德勋爵堂、梅兰比堂、贝洛苏丹堂、阿齐克韦堂、独立堂、巴勒瓦堂、库蒂堂、伊迪亚女王堂与伊丽莎白女王堂。
• Obafemi Awolowo Hall is described by the university as the largest female hall of residence in West Africa, and Queen Idia Hall houses women undergraduates.奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃堂被校方称为西非规模最大的女生宿舍，伊迪亚女王堂同样供本科女生居住。
• The campus keeps separate botanical and zoological gardens, which support teaching in biology, agriculture and veterinary medicine and supply specimens for practical classes.校园内设有独立的植物园与动物园，为生物学、农学与兽医学教学提供支持，并为实验课提供标本。
• The University College Hospital adjoins the campus, so clinical students move between lecture theatres and wards on foot.伊巴丹大学学院医院紧邻校园，临床专业学生可步行往返于讲堂与病房之间。
• Ebrohimie Road, where Soyinka's bungalow stands, has become a literary landmark and the subject of a 2024 documentary film.索因卡平房所在的埃布罗希米路已成为文学地标，并于 2024 年成为一部纪录片的拍摄主题。

Reputation

• The University of Ibadan is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval within the global table rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，伊巴丹大学位列 1001-1200 区间，这是该全球榜单中由多校并列构成的区间，而非单一名次。
• It stands in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, the strongest position recorded by a Nigerian university in that table.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 801-1000 区间，是尼日利亚高校在该榜单上的最好位次。
• In the 2026 Times Higher Education world table it was again placed in the 801-1000 band, the same interval it has occupied since its first appearance in 2016.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校同样位列 801-1000 区间，与 2016 年首次上榜以来的位次一致。
• It was ranked 264th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, placing it inside the global top 300 of that table and above every other Nigerian university.该校在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 264 位，进入该榜单全球前 300 名，位次高于其他尼日利亚高校。
• It was placed in the 801-900 band of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, the interval covering institutions ranked between 801st and 900th worldwide.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列 801-900 区间，即全球第 801 至 900 名之间的院校区间段。
• In the Times Higher Education subject rankings for 2026 it sat in the 301-400 band for law and for medical and health studies, and in the 501-600 band for social sciences.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育学科排名中，该校法学与医学及健康学科位列 301-400 区间，社会科学位列 501-600 区间。
• Its entry into the Times Higher Education top 1,000 in September 2016 was the first by any Nigerian university and made it the benchmark for the sector.该校于 2016 年 9 月首次进入泰晤士高等教育世界排名前 1000 位，是尼日利亚高校中的第一次，此后成为本国高教的标杆。
• OpenAlex records 51,312 works and 1,526,548 citations for the university, the largest research corpus among Nigerian institutions in that index.OpenAlex 记录该校 51,312 项研究成果与 1,526,548 次引用，在该数据库中居尼日利亚各机构之首。
• Wole Soyinka's 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first awarded to an African writer, remains the university's most cited academic distinction and is recalled in its literature curriculum.沃莱·索因卡于 1986 年获得诺贝尔文学奖，是首位获此奖的非洲作家，这仍是该校最常被引述的学术荣誉，并写入其文学课程。
• The university presents itself as "the first and the best", a claim grounded in its 1948 foundation and its status as Nigeria's oldest degree-awarding institution, and the phrase is used throughout its admissions material.该校以「第一且最优」自许，这一说法源于其 1948 年的创办历史以及尼日利亚最早学位授予机构的地位，该校招生材料中亦反复使用这一表述。

Student life

• The motto is Recte Sapere Fons, Latin for "sound thinking is the fountain of knowledge", and it appears on the university's arms, degree certificates and ceremonial documents.校训为拉丁语 Recte Sapere Fons，意为「正确的思考是知识之源」，见于校徽、学位证书与各类典礼文书。
• Founders' Day is marked on 17 November, the anniversary of the 1948 cutting of the sod on the permanent site, and is the occasion for the university's annual address to staff and students.创校纪念日定在 11 月 17 日，即 1948 年永久校址破土动工的周年日，校方每年于此日向全体师生发表周年讲话。
• Residential life is organised around the fifteen halls, each with its own warden, dining arrangements and inter-hall sporting rivalries, and hall membership remains the main axis of student identity.住宿生活围绕十五座宿舍展开，每座宿舍设有舍监、独立的膳食安排，并在校际宿舍体育赛中互为对手；宿舍归属至今仍是学生身份认同的主要线索。
• Queen Idia Hall and Obafemi Awolowo Hall accommodate women, the latter being the largest female hall in West Africa.伊迪亚女王堂与奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃堂为女生宿舍，其中后者是西非规模最大的女生宿舍。
• The botanical and zoological gardens double as quiet study spaces and as field sites for biology and agriculture students.植物园与动物园既是安静的学习场所，也是生物与农业专业学生的野外实习基地。
• Trenchard Hall hosts inaugural lectures, convocations and public lectures, and had staged 629 inaugural lectures by October 2026.特伦查德厅承办就职演讲、毕业典礼与公开讲座，至 2026 年 10 月已举办 629 场就职演讲。
• Ebrohimie Road and the Soyinka bungalow give the campus a literary identity that culminates in the annual remembrance of the writer's Ibadan years.埃布罗希米路与索因卡旧居赋予校园文学气质，每年都有活动纪念这位作家在伊巴丹的岁月。
• Ibadan itself, as the capital of Oyo State, supplies the transport, markets and rented housing on which the off-campus student population depends.作为奥约州首府的伊巴丹市，为校外住宿的学生提供交通、市场与出租住房等生活依托。
• Staff and students have separate residential and sporting facilities on campus, and the playing fields host inter-hall athletics, football and cricket throughout the academic year.教职工与学生在本校各有独立的住宿与体育设施，运动场全年承办宿舍间的田径、足球与板球比赛。

Notable people

• Kenneth Mellanby, a British entomologist, was appointed principal in 1947 and inaugurated the college on 18 January 1948.英国昆虫学家肯尼思·梅兰比于 1947 年获任院长，并于 1948 年 1 月 18 日主持学院开学典礼。
• Kenneth Dike, a historian, became the first Nigerian principal and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor, and the central library is named after him.历史学家肯尼思·迪克成为首位尼日利亚籍院长与首位尼日利亚籍校长，学校中心图书馆以他命名。
• Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria from 1960 until 1966, was installed as the university's first Chancellor in 1963.阿布巴卡尔·塔法瓦·巴勒瓦爵士于 1960 至 1966 年任尼日利亚总理，1963 年就任该校首任校监。
• Wole Soyinka, who studied at the college and later held a research post there, won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to do so.沃莱·索因卡曾在该校求学，其后在校担任研究职务，1986 年获得诺贝尔文学奖，是首位获此奖的非洲人。
• Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart (1958), studied at University College Ibadan and shaped the modern African novel in English.奇努阿·阿切贝是《瓦解》（1958）的作者，曾在伊巴丹大学学院就读，塑造了英语现代非洲小说。
• James Meredith, the first African American to enrol at the University of Mississippi, spent a year at Ibadan in 1960 before returning to complete his degree in the United States.首位入读密西西比大学的非裔美国人詹姆斯·梅雷迪思，1960 年曾在伊巴丹学习一年，之后返美完成学位。
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and Ogoni rights campaigner executed in 1995, and the poet Christopher Okigbo were both alumni of the university.1995 年被处决的作家、奥戈尼权利运动者肯·萨罗-维瓦与诗人克里斯托弗·奥基格博均为该校校友。
• Niyi Osundare, winner of the 1986 Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and the playwright Femi Osofisan also took their degrees at Ibadan.1986 年英联邦诗歌奖得主尼伊·奥孙达雷与剧作家费米·奥索菲桑同样在伊巴丹取得学位。
• Emeka Anyaoku, Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1990 to 2000, and Michael Omolewa, President of the UNESCO General Conference, are alumni.1990 至 2000 年任英联邦秘书长的埃梅卡·安亚奥库，以及曾任联合国教科文组织大会主席的迈克尔·奥莫莱瓦，都是该校校友。
• Kashim Shettima, Vice-President of Nigeria since 2023, and Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State from 2010 to 2014 and 2018 to 2022, studied at the university.2023 年起任尼日利亚副总统的卡希姆·谢蒂马，以及 2010 至 2014 年、2018 至 2022 年任埃基蒂州州长的卡约德·法耶米，均曾在该校就读。
• Olufunmilayo Olopade, a cancer geneticist who received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005, and Grace Alele-Williams, the first female Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria, are alumnae.2005 年获麦克阿瑟奖学金的癌症遗传学家奥卢富恩米拉约·奥洛帕德，以及尼日利亚首位女性校长的格蕾丝·阿莱莱-威廉姆斯，都是该校女性校友。