Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), the acclaimed fastest growing university in Africa, has scored yet another ‘first’ with the first set of its students graduating within four years of a predictable and uninterrupted academic calendar.
The students who commenced academic work on January 4, 2010 are graduating this month (June), thereby confirming the Founder, Aare Afe Babalola’s determination and resolve to reform and revolutionize Nigeria’s educational landscape by leading others in the provision of quality education in an urbane and attractive environment.
With this unprecedented feat among many others, the university which has been rated by the World Universities Webometrics as No. 2 best private university, No. 16 among Nigeria’s 157 universities and described by NUC in 2009 as a reference point, model and benchmark for private universities, has set a record that a four-year course could indeed be concluded timeously without getting extended to eight years as is the fad in some other universities.
Before ABUAD’s intervention, it was common place for university programmes to be regretfully unpredictable for all manners of reasons ranging from students’ orchestrated riots to academic and non-academic staff going on strike for trivial and mundane reasons.
That our university is crime and violence-free, thereby lending credence to our resolve to promote excellence in industry, character and discipline, the Association of Heads of Security of Tertiary Institutions (AHSOTI) in 2011 adjudged ABUAD as the safest campus of the year.
This was attested to by Miss Elizabeth Egbe, a 100-Level International Relations and Diplomacy student who recalled how it was not difficult for her to choose ABUAD because of what she had heard and read about the school, particularly the level of infrastructures on ground, the commitment of lecturers, a peaceful and violence-free environment and the burning passion of the Founder to raise the Bar of the running of tertiary institutions in the country.