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Brief Histroy: On January 14, 1981, Chief Adekunle Ajasin led civilian government of the Ondo State announced its intent to establish a Multi-Campus University in the state and a 16 member planning committee was set up. The outcome of the exercise led to the founding of the University in March, 1982, when the State Government created a University named Obafemi Awolowo University, Ado-Ekiti and appointed Late Prof. I.O. Oladapo as the First Vice-Chancellor of the University with the composition of the first council headed by the late Chief B.A. Ajayi on 28 March 1982. The University started off in a modest way from an old catering Rest House in Akure and moved to a temporary site in Ado-Ekiti where lectures started soon after with 136 students spread in the Faculties of Arts, Science and Social Sciences while during the 1983/84 session, new courses were established to strengthen the existing faculties and they were Geology, Biology, Chemistry, French, Yoruba Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Political Science and Psychology. A fourth Faculty ? Faculty of Education was established and the student population increased to 724 in 1983/84 session. In the 1985/86 session, the Faculty of Engineering with three initial Departments of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical and a Department of Banking and Finance while the Faculty of Law was established during the 1991/92 session and the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences was established in 2001, bringing the Faculties to 8 in number and the student population of 10,000. The student population is in excess of 25,000 today in various academic programmes Today the University has grown to a number of Faculties and academic programmes including Faculties of Arts, Agricultural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, Management Science, Science, The Social Science and the College of Medicine, apart from the School of Postgraduate Studies, Directorate of Continuing Education, Directorate of Part Time Programme, Directorate of Sandwich Education Degree Programme, Affiliate Colleges, Institute of Education, Institute of Science Laboratory Technology, Directorate of Pre-Degree Programmes, General Studies Unit, Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Centre for Research and Development, among others.