University of Lagos

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) is a federal research university in Akoka, on the mainland of Lagos, Nigeria, established in 1962 by an Act of the Federal Parliament and counted among the country's first-generation universities.拉各斯大学（University of Lagos，简称 UNILAG）是位于尼日利亚拉各斯大陆部分阿科卡的一所联邦研究型大学，1962 年依据联邦议会法案设立，属该国「第一代大学」之列。

It opened on 22 October 1962 with 131 students at a temporary site in Surulere, teaching only business and social studies, law and medicine, and now operates three campuses and twelve faculties.该校于 1962 年 10 月 22 日在苏鲁莱雷的临时校址开学，仅有 131 名学生，只设商业与社会科学、法律与医学三类课程，如今已拥有三个校区与十二个学院。

Its 802-acre main campus is enclosed by the Lagos Lagoon, and the university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校 802 英亩的主校区被拉各斯潟湖环绕，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间。

History

• The University of Lagos was established by the University of Lagos Act No. 11 of 1962, passed by the Federal Parliament as a direct response to the country's shortage of professional and technical manpower after independence.拉各斯大学依据 1962 年第 11 号《拉各斯大学法》设立，该法由联邦议会通过，直接回应独立后国家对专业与技术人才的短缺。
• The 1962 Act provided for an eleven-member Provisional Council, a Senate to preside over academic affairs and a separate council for the medical school, a tripartite design that proved difficult to operate.1962 年法案规定设立十一人临时校务委员会、主管学术事务的评议会，以及独立的医学院委员会，这一三头架构在实际运作中颇多困难。
• Teaching began on 22 October 1962 at a temporary site in Surulere with 131 students, divided between business and social studies with 46, law with 56 and the medical school with 28.1962 年 10 月 22 日，学校在苏鲁莱雷的临时校址开课，共有 131 名学生，其中商业与社会科学 46 人、法律 56 人、医学院 28 人。
• Eni Njoku, a botanist, was appointed the first Vice-Chancellor in 1962 and served until 1965, when Saburi Biobaku, a historian of the Yoruba, succeeded him.埃尼·恩乔库于 1962 年获任首任校长，任职至 1965 年，由萨布里·比奥巴库接任。
• Biobaku's appointment provoked a student protest, and he was stabbed by the student radical Kayode Adams, an episode that marked the university's early governance disputes.比奥巴库的任命引发学生抗议，他被激进学生卡约德·亚当斯刺伤，这一事件成为该校早期治理争议的标志。
• The faculties of arts, education, engineering and science were added in 1964, two years after the university opened with only three faculties, and each new faculty began in borrowed rooms on the Akoka site.1964 年，学校增设文学院、教育学院、工程学院与理学院，此时距其仅以三个学院开学不过两年。
• The first phase of the Akoka campus was completed in 1965, comprising Academic Group North and South, the dining hall, the library, the administrative block, the central concourse, staff quarters and student hostels, and it remained the core of the campus for two decades.阿科卡校区的第一期工程于 1965 年完工，包括南北两个教学组团、食堂、图书馆、行政楼、中央广场、教工宿舍与学生宿舍，此后二十年一直是校园的核心。
• The original Act had created two separate institutions, the main university and an autonomous medical school at Idi-Araba, an arrangement revised by Decree No. 3 of 1967.最初的法案实际上设立了两个独立机构——主校与伊迪-阿拉巴的自治医学院，这一安排由 1967 年第 3 号法令予以修改。
• The 1967 decree created a single council for the whole university and turned the medical school into the College of Medicine, which kept a collegiate structure under the authority of Senate.1967 年的法令为全校设立统一的校务委员会，并把医学院改为医学院部，后者在评议会管辖下保留学院制结构。
• On 28 June 1973 Senate adopted the faculty system for the whole university, ending a confusing overlap of faculty, school and collegiate structures that had grown up since 1962.1973 年 6 月 28 日，评议会决定在全校实行学院制，结束了学院、学系与学院部三种结构并存的混乱局面。
• The School of Postgraduate Studies was established on 22 July 1981 and soon acquired the nickname "the Lagoon Lighthouse" for the visibility of its research output and its role in doctoral training.研究生院于 1981 年 7 月 22 日成立，因其研究成果的能见度很快获得「潟湖灯塔」的别称。
• The university's International School opened in 1981 and moved to its permanent site in October 1985, serving staff families and the wider Akoka community.该校国际学校于 1981 年开办，1985 年 10 月迁入永久校址，服务教工家庭与阿科卡周边社区。
• The Senate House Complex was completed in 1984, and the Hydraulic Research Laboratory was built with a grant from the Netherlands government and a donation of 30,000 naira from the Nigerian Ports Authority, the same period adding buildings for arts, law, chemical engineering, mass communication and science.评议会大楼建筑群于 1984 年落成；水力学研究实验室则依靠荷兰政府赠款与尼日利亚港务局 30,000 奈拉的捐款建成，同期还兴建了文学院、法学、化学工程、大众传播与理学院馆舍。
• The university was named the best university in Nigeria at the Nigerian University System Annual Merit Award in 2008, an award that weighed research activity heavily.2008 年，该校在尼日利亚大学系统年度功绩奖评选中被评为全国最佳大学，该奖项将科研活动列为重要指标。
• On 29 May 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan proposed renaming the university Moshood Abiola University, prompting protests by students, staff and alumni, and the proposal was abandoned.2012 年 5 月 29 日，总统古德勒克·乔纳森提议将校名改为莫舒德·阿比奥拉大学，引发学生、教职工与校友抗议，该提议最终被放弃。
• A visitation panel covering 2016 to 2020 found financial abuses by senior officials and ordered the university to close accounts held with commercial banks.一个针对 2016 至 2020 年校务的视察小组查出高层官员的财务违规行为，并责令学校关闭在商业银行开设的账户。
• The Centre for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management was established in April 2018 to monitor ecosystems and fund local conservation research through grants such as TETFund.生物多样性保护与生态系统管理中心于 2018 年 4 月成立，负责监测生态系统，并通过 TETFund 等资助开展本土保护研究。
• In 2020 Forbes ranked the university third in Africa for entrepreneurship, after the University of Cape Town and Makerere University, calling it a startup powerhouse for Nigerian students.2020 年，《福布斯》将该校列为非洲创业教育第三名，仅次于开普敦大学与麦克雷雷大学，并称其为尼日利亚学生的创业重镇。
• On 29 June 2020 the university received CRZR robots donated by Platform Capital to support its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.2020 年 6 月 29 日，该校接收了平台资本捐赠的 CRZR 机器人，用于支持新冠疫情的应对工作。
• Folasade Ogunsola was appointed Vice-Chancellor on 7 October 2022 and assumed office on 12 November 2022 as the thirteenth holder of the post and the first woman to lead the university.福拉沙德·奥贡索拉于 2022 年 10 月 7 日获任命为校长，11 月 12 日就职，成为该校第十三任校长、也是首位女性校长。
• Its 2024/25 statistical digest recorded 16,604 male and 18,573 female undergraduates alongside 5,694 male and 5,249 female postgraduate students across its faculties and institutes.该校 2024/25 学年统计公报记录，各学院与研究所共有本科男生 16,604 人、女生 18,573 人，研究生男生 5,694 人、女生 5,249 人。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into twelve faculties, including those of the College of Medicine, namely Arts, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Dental Sciences, Education, Engineering and Environmental Sciences.教学分为十二个学院，其中包括医学院部所属各院，即文学院、基础医学学院、临床科学学院、牙科科学学院、教育学院、工程学院与环境科学学院。
• The remaining faculties are Law, Management Sciences, Pharmacy, Science and Social Sciences, and the College of Medicine groups the three clinical and basic medical faculties with the teaching hospital.其余学院为法学院、管理科学学院、药学院、理学院与社会科学学院；医学院部则将三个基础与临床医学类学院与教学医院归为一体。
• Law and business were among the three founding faculties of 1962, and both remain among the most competitive programmes in the country, with law graduates dominating the Nigerian bar.法律与商科是 1962 年创校时的三个学院之一，两者至今仍是全国竞争最激烈的专业，法律毕业生在尼日利亚律师界占据主导地位。
• The College of Medicine teaches basic medical sciences, clinical sciences and dental sciences, and its dental school is one of the small number training dentists in Nigeria.医学院部承担基础医学、临床科学与牙科科学的教学，其牙科学院是尼日利亚为数不多培养牙医的机构之一。
• The university began with three faculties in 1962 and added arts, education, engineering and science in 1964, a pattern of steady expansion that produced the present twelve.该校 1962 年仅有三个学院，1964 年增设文、教育、工程与理学院，这种稳步扩张最终形成今天的十二个学院。
• Postgraduate degrees are administered by the School of Postgraduate Studies, founded in 1981, while the Distance Learning Institute and the Institute of Continuing Education serve part-time and off-campus students.研究生学位由 1981 年成立的研究生院管理，远程学习学院与继续教育学院则面向非全日制与校外学生。
• Clinical training is carried out with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, known as LUTH, which stands beside the College of Medicine at Idi-Araba.临床教学与拉各斯大学教学医院（LUTH）共同开展，该院位于伊迪-阿拉巴，紧邻医学院部。
• Every programme is accredited by the National Universities Commission, the federal regulator that also oversees the country's other federal universities.该校所有专业均获尼日利亚大学委员会认证，这一联邦监管机构同时管辖国内其他联邦大学。
• The university admits about 8,500 undergraduates each year from a much larger pool of applicants, making it one of the most competitive institutions in the country and the first choice of many school leavers.该校每年从远多于录取名额的申请者中录取约 8,500 名本科生，是全国竞争最激烈的院校之一。
• Research units include the Centre for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management, established in 2018, and the Hydraulic Research Laboratory built with Dutch and Nigerian Ports Authority support for coastal and port engineering.科研单位包括 2018 年成立的生物多样性保护与生态系统管理中心，以及依靠荷兰与尼日利亚港务局支持建成的水力学研究实验室。
• The Distance Learning Institute runs degree programmes for working adults, and UNILAG Consult and UNILAG Ventures generate income from professional training and commercial services.远程学习学院为在职成人开设学位课程，拉各斯大学咨询公司与拉各斯大学企业公司则通过专业培训与商业服务创收。
• OpenAlex indexes 26,836 works and 520,922 citations attributable to the university, with concentrations in public health, engineering, the biomedical sciences and the social sciences.OpenAlex 收录该校 26,836 项研究成果与 520,922 次引用，集中于公共卫生、工程、生物医学与社会科学领域。
• The university library serves all three campuses, and its collections support professional programmes in law, medicine, engineering and business as well as the liberal arts, with branch libraries in the College of Medicine and the Distance Learning Institute.该校图书馆服务三个校区，馆藏支撑法律、医学、工程与商科等专业课程以及人文学科的教学，并在医学院部与远程学习学院设有分馆。
• The Centre for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management works with TETFund grants and collaborates with tertiary institutions on monitoring and conservation across Nigeria.生物多样性保护与生态系统管理中心依托 TETFund 资助，并与多所高等院校合作，在尼日利亚各地开展监测与保护工作。
• Its entrepreneurship provision, ranked third in Africa by Forbes in 2020, combines business incubators with courses open to students from every faculty.该校创业教育在 2020 年被《福布斯》评为非洲第三，其体系将创业孵化器与面向全校各院系学生的课程结合起来。
• The medical school's teaching hospital also provides residency training, so the College of Medicine contributes to specialist medical education well beyond the undergraduate degree.医学院部的教学医院同时承担住院医师培训，因此医学院部在本科教育之外还参与专科医学人才培养。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 802 acres at Akoka, on the Lagos mainland, and is largely enclosed by the waters of the Lagos Lagoon.主校区位于拉各斯大陆部分的阿科卡，占地 802 英亩，大部分被拉各斯潟湖的水域环绕。
• Two further sites support it, the Yaba campus, which houses the School of Radiography, and the Idi-Araba campus of the College of Medicine.此外还有两处校区：亚巴校区设放射学院，伊迪-阿拉巴校区则为医学院部所在地。
• The 1965 first phase set the campus layout, with Academic Group North and South, a central concourse, the library, the dining hall and the earliest student hostels.1965 年完工的第一期工程奠定了校园格局，包括南北教学组团、中央广场、图书馆、食堂与最早的学生宿舍。
• The Senate House Complex, completed in 1984, and the Afe Babalola Auditorium are the principal ceremonial buildings, while the J. P. Clark Centre honours the poet who taught at the university, and a health centre and sports centre serve staff and students nearby.1984 年落成的评议会大楼建筑群与阿费·巴巴洛拉礼堂是主要礼仪建筑，J. P. 克拉克中心则纪念曾在该校任教的诗人；附近另设保健中心与体育中心供师生使用。
• The lagoon front, with its fountain and waterside walk, is the campus's best-known gathering place and looks across the water to the Third Mainland Bridge.潟湖岸线设有喷泉与滨水步道，是校园最知名的聚会场所，隔水可望见第三大陆桥。
• Akintunde Ojo Memorial Hall and the Geosciences Centre are among the named buildings added in later phases of expansion, alongside the sports centre and health centre.阿金通德·奥乔纪念堂与地球科学中心是后期扩建中命名的建筑，体育中心与保健中心亦在其中。
• The university's International School, opened in 1981 and relocated to its permanent site in 1985, stands on campus and enrols the children of staff and neighbouring residents.该校国际学校 1981 年开办、1985 年迁入永久校址，设于校园之内，招收教工子女与周边居民子弟。
• Akoka sits in the Yaba district of mainland Lagos, close to the city's technology cluster and linked by road to Lagos Island and the bridges across the lagoon, with the Yaba and Idi-Araba sites a short drive away.阿科卡位于拉各斯大陆的亚巴区，邻近城市科技产业带，经公路与桥梁连接拉各斯岛，亚巴与伊迪-阿拉巴两处校区亦仅短程车程。

Reputation

• The University of Lagos is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，拉各斯大学位列 1001-1200 区间，这是并列区间而非单一名次。
• Because Ibadan also sits in the 1001-1200 band, the two Nigerian universities shared the same QS interval in the 2027 edition, an outcome that reflects how tightly the country's leading institutions cluster.由于伊巴丹大学同样位于 1001-1200 区间，这两所尼日利亚大学在 2027 年 QS 榜单中处于同一区间，这一结果也反映该国领先院校之间的紧邻程度。
• It stands in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, matching the band recorded by the University of Ibadan in the same edition.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，与伊巴丹大学在同一版榜单中的区间相同。
• It was ranked 314th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, inside the global top 350 and second among Nigerian universities behind Ibadan.该校在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 314 位，进入全球前 350 名，在尼日利亚高校中仅次于伊巴丹大学。
• It did not appear in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, and is therefore assessed in this entry on its QS, Times Higher Education and U.S. News positions.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此本条目以其 QS、泰晤士高等教育与 US News 三项榜单位次作为评价依据。
• In 2008 the National Universities Commission named it the best university in Nigeria at the Nigerian University System Annual Merit Award, citing its research activity.2008 年，尼日利亚大学委员会在尼日利亚大学系统年度功绩奖评选中以科研活动为主要依据，将该校评为全国最佳大学。
• Forbes ranked it third in Africa for entrepreneurship in 2020, behind the University of Cape Town and Makerere University, and described it as a startup powerhouse.2020 年，《福布斯》将其创业教育列为非洲第三，排在开普敦大学与麦克雷雷大学之后，并称其为创业重镇。
• OpenAlex records 26,836 works and 520,922 citations for the university, the second-largest research corpus among Nigerian universities in that index.OpenAlex 记录该校 26,836 项研究成果与 520,922 次引用，在该数据库中居尼日利亚高校第二位。
• As of September 2020 one Nobel laureate and one Pulitzer Prize winner had been affiliated with the university as students, alumni, faculty or staff.截至 2020 年 9 月，已有各一位诺贝尔奖得主与普利策奖得主以学生、校友、教师或职员身份与该校相关联。
• The university styles itself "the University of First Choice and the Nation's Pride", a slogan used in its admissions campaigns and official publications.该校自称「首选大学与国家之光」，这一口号见于其招生宣传与官方出版物。

Student life

• The motto is "In deed and in truth", an English phrase rather than a Latin one, and it heads the university's website and ceremonial documents.校训为英语箴言「In deed and in truth」（以行动与真理），并非拉丁文，置于学校官网与典礼文书之首。
• Residential life is organised through halls of residence on the Akoka campus, each with its own administration and teams in the annual inter-hall games.住宿生活以阿科卡校区的学生宿舍为单位组织，每座宿舍设有独立管理团队，并组队参加一年一度的宿舍间运动会。
• The lagoon front functions as the campus's social centre, used for boat rides, outdoor concerts and the graduation photographs that mark the end of each session, and its fountain is the backdrop for most official images of the university.潟湖岸线是校园的社交中心，用于乘船游览、露天音乐会以及每学年结束时拍摄毕业照；岸边的喷泉是学校多数官方宣传照片的背景。
• The annual Miss UNILAG pageant is one of the university's best-known student events and has launched several careers in entertainment and broadcasting, while its winners often become faces of campus campaigns.一年一度的「拉各斯大学小姐」选美是该校最知名的学生活动之一，已有多位参与者由此进入娱乐与广播电视行业。
• Entrepreneurship societies and student incubators reflect the university's third-place African ranking for startup education awarded by Forbes in 2020.创业类社团与学生孵化器体现了该校在 2020 年《福布斯》非洲创业教育排名中获得的第三名成绩。
• The Distance Learning Institute and the Institute of Continuing Education bring working adults onto campus at weekends, giving the university a mixed student body of full-time and part-time learners.远程学习学院与继续教育学院让在职成人于周末进入校园，使该校学生构成兼具全日制与非全日制群体。
• Because the halls house only part of the student body, private hostels in Akoka, Bariga and Abule-Oja absorb the rest and shape the university's relationship with its neighbourhoods.由于宿舍只能容纳部分学生，阿科卡、巴里加与阿布勒-奥贾的私人公寓接纳其余学生，也塑造了学校与周边社区的关系。
• The university's alumni association maintains branches across Nigeria and abroad, and its annual homecoming brings graduates back to the Akoka campus for lectures, dinners and hall reunions.该校校友会在尼日利亚各地与海外设有分会，每年校友返校活动把毕业生带回阿科卡校区。

Notable people

• Eni Njoku, a botanist, was the university's first Vice-Chancellor from 1962 to 1965 and later served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.植物学家埃尼·恩乔库于 1962 至 1965 年任该校首任校长，其后出任恩苏卡尼日利亚大学校长。
• Saburi Biobaku, a historian of the Yoruba, was Vice-Chancellor from 1965 to 1971 and had earlier led the Yoruba Historical Research Scheme.约鲁巴史学者萨布里·比奥巴库于 1965 至 1971 年任校长，此前主持约鲁巴历史研究计划。
• Folasade Ogunsola, a clinical microbiologist, became the thirteenth Vice-Chancellor in November 2022 and the first woman to hold the office.临床微生物学家福拉沙德·奥贡索拉于 2022 年 11 月出任第十三任校长，是该职位首位女性。
• Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, taught at the university, and the institution counted one Nobel laureate among its affiliates as of 2020.1986 年诺贝尔文学奖得主沃莱·索因卡曾在该校任教；截至 2020 年，该校关联人员中有一位诺贝尔奖得主。
• Dele Olojede, who took a master's degree in 1986, became the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his reporting on Rwanda and Darfur.1986 年获得硕士学位的德莱·奥洛杰德，因对卢旺达与达尔富尔的报道于 2005 年成为首位非洲出生的普利策奖得主。
• Yemi Osinbajo studied law at the university, later taught in its law faculty and served as Vice-President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.耶米·奥辛巴乔在该校攻读法律，其后在法学院任教，并于 2015 至 2023 年出任尼日利亚副总统。
• Tony Elumelu, the banker who founded Heirs Holdings and the Tony Elumelu Foundation, took his bachelor's degree in economics from the university.创办继承控股与托尼·埃卢梅卢基金会的银行家托尼·埃卢梅卢，在该校取得经济学学士学位。
• Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos State since 2019, and Akinwunmi Ambode, who held the same office from 2015 to 2019, are both alumni.2019 年起任拉各斯州州长的巴巴吉德·桑沃-奥卢，以及 2015 至 2019 年任该州州长的阿金文米·安博德，均为该校校友。
• Grace Alele-Williams, a professor of mathematics education at the university, became the first female Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria when she took office at Benin in 1985.该校数学教育教授格蕾丝·阿莱莱-威廉姆斯于 1985 年出任贝宁大学校长，成为尼日利亚首位女性校长。
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and Ogoni rights campaigner executed in 1995, taught at the university before his political activism.1995 年被处决的作家、奥戈尼权利运动者肯·萨罗-维瓦，在投身政治活动前曾在该校任教。
• Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos since 2003, and Olufunke Oshonaike, the table tennis player who competed at seven Olympic Games, are alumni of the university.2003 年起登位的拉各斯王里尔万·阿基奥卢，以及参加过七届奥运会的乒乓球运动员奥卢芬凯·奥肖奈克，均为该校校友。