Confluence University of Science and Technology Osara, Kogi

Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, is a Kogi State Government university focused on science, technology, engineering, environmental sciences and health disciplines. It was set up as the state's second university, after the first state university founded in 1999, to widen access for qualified Kogi applicants and to fill manpower gaps in engineering, technology and the health sciences.

The campus is at No. 19, Okene-Lokoja Express Road, Osara, in Okehi Local Government Area, not far from Okene and Lokoja. It has nine faculties and colleges: Basic Medical and Health Sciences (College of Medical Sciences), Engineering, Agriculture, Computing and Informatics, Management and Social Sciences, Environmental Science, Law, Science, and Science and Technology Education. Across them the university runs over 42 departments and over 50 programmes.

The Faculty of Engineering has eleven departments: Computer, Chemical, Electrical and Electronics, Civil, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Agricultural, Petroleum and Gas, Materials and Metallurgical, Marine, and Mining Engineering. Engineering programmes are accredited by the National Universities Commission and are undergoing full accreditation by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). Computing and Informatics offers Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering and Library and Information Science. Environmental Science covers Architecture, Building, Geography, Survey and Geoinformatics, and Urban and Regional Planning. The College of Medical Sciences offers Medicine and Surgery, Anatomy, Physiology, Nursing Science, Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy and Radiography. The Faculty of Science includes Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, Statistics, Geology and Applied Geophysics, and the Faculty of Science and Technology Education trains teachers in subjects such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Geography education and several technology education options.

Student facilities include a central university library with an e-library (ProQuest Ebook Central, an e-journal collection and a Law e-library), a university health centre for students and staff, indoor and outdoor sporting facilities, new student hostels with an online hostel booking portal, and campus security with perimeter fencing and surveillance. Student affairs, a Students' Representative Council, sports and accommodation are run as part of student life, and respect for diverse religious beliefs is encouraged on campus.

CUSTECH hosts one of the national centres of Barefoot College Nigeria, which trains rural women in solar engineering and renewable energy, and is a partner in the World Bank L-PRES livestock productivity project. It benefits from TETFund special intervention projects, including the faculty complexes for Science, Environmental Sciences and Management and Social Sciences. The university's first alumni association was inaugurated in July 2026, and the first combined convocation for the first and second sets of graduates was held in 2025.