 North Gate of the Samaru campus, 2021 | |
Former names | University of Northern Nigeria |
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| Type | Public, research |
| Established | 4 October 1962 |
| Chancellor | Alfred Achebe |
| Vice-Chancellor | Kabir Bala[1] |
| Location | , , Nigeria 11°04′N 7°42′E / 11.067°N 7.700°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colours | Green and white |
| Nickname | ABU |
| Website | abu |
The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a public research university located in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It was opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria. The university has four colleges, three schools, 18 faculties, 110 academic departments, 17 centres, and seven institutes with over 600 professors, about 3000 academic staff and over 7000 non-teaching staff. The university has over 400 postgraduate programmes reflecting its strife to become a postgraduate studies-centred university.[2] The university operates from two campuses in the ancient cosmopolitan city of Zaria, the Samaru Campus where the Senate Building and most of the faculties are located and the Kongo Campus, hosting the faculties of Law and Administration. It has been adjudged to be the largest university in Sub-Saharan Africa, (next to Cairo University) in terms of land occupied, owing to the numerous buildings it has.
- ^ NUC. "List of Universities". Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ "Ahmadu Bello University". Ahmadu Bello University. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.