University in Nigeria
Uburu, Ohaozara, Ebonyi State
University profile
The David Nweze Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences (DUFUHS, also known by the web name KDUMS), Uburu, is a medical and health sciences university in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, south-eastern Nigeria. It was built by the Ebonyi State Government under Governor David Nweze Umahi, after whom it is named, and was recognised by the National Universities Commission (NUC) on 7 July 2021 as the 197th university in Nigeria. It describes itself as an ultra-modern, 21st-century international medical sciences university.
The university exists to develop manpower for the health sector in Nigeria and the West African sub-region. Its vision is the highest form of quality manpower development for healthcare and other service delivery for all persons irrespective of gender, race, religion and socio-economic status, and its core values are excellence, godliness, ethics, compassion, respect, delivery, collaboration, innovation, accountability, learning, improvement and sustainability. Curricula follow the NUC Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards, and teaching uses self-directed learning, small-group tutorials, competence-based learning, community-based education and service (COBES), problem-based learning, case studies and e-learning.
Academic work is organised in faculties and a college: the College of Medicine, and the Faculties of Basic Medical Sciences, Natural Sciences, Dentistry, Health Sciences and Technology, Allied Health Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences, together with a Centre for General and Entrepreneurial Studies, a Pre-Degree School, a Centre for Research, Innovation and Linkages, and a College of Postgraduate Studies. Undergraduate programmes include Medicine and Surgery (MBBS), Dentistry (BDS), Pharmacy (Pharm.D), Nursing Science, Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy (DPT), Optometry (OD), Radiography and Radiation Science, Biomedical Engineering (B.Eng.), Public Health, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Microbiology/Parasitology, Biology/Biotechnology, Computer Science, Industrial Physics, Industrial Chemistry and Industrial Mathematics and Statistics.
The university is built around a teaching hospital whose centres and units include maternal and child care, cancer treatment and oncology, eye care, dialysis, laboratory services (medical microbiology, haematology/immunology, chemical pathology and histopathology), radiology, operating theatres, kidney and liver transplantation, dental services, pharmacy, virology and quarantine, a dialyzer production plant and an oxygen production plant.
The campus has male and female hostel blocks, with accommodation included in the school fee for all students, plus biology, chemistry, physics and computer laboratories, an e-library, senior and junior staff quarters and a pre-degree school block. All students are required to live in the university hostels. Students are admitted from across Nigeria, and the Ebonyi State Government's scholarship programme has drawn candidates from all 36 states and the FCT.
The Ebonyi State Government, through the university, offered a one-year scholarship to six candidates from each of the 36 states and the FCT for first-year study. The award pays the annual fees including accommodation (but not feeding) for the successful candidates: Pharmacy ₦2.5m; Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science, Biomedical Engineering, Radiography and Radiation Sciences and Dentistry ₦2m each.
Eligibility: Nigerian citizenship; applying for admission through JAMB in the session concerned; evidence of ability to self-finance from the second year; residence on campus. Application is online: enter a phone number, complete the form and upload a passport photograph, WAEC/NECO and JAMB results and a State Indigene Certificate, then submit. See the scholarship page.
The 2022 handbook records that the scholarship was to continue in 2022/2023 and be extended to the West African sub-region. A fee-reduction notice is also published at kdums.edu.ng/reductions_fees.aspx.
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View scholarships for David Nweze Umahi Federal University of Medical Sciences, Uburu →Candidates must make the university their first choice in JAMB, hold at least five credit passes in relevant subjects including English and Mathematics in WAEC, NECO or equivalent, and have scored at least 150 in the 2025 UTME. Candidates who scored 150 or above but chose another institution may change institution on the JAMB portal before applying.
Medicine and Surgery (MBBS), Pharmacy (Pharm.D), Nursing Science (BNS), Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy (DPT), Biomedical Engineering (B.Eng.), Radiography and Radiation Science, Optometry (OD), Computer Science, Industrial and Medical Physics, Industrial and Medicinal Chemistry, Industrial Mathematics and Statistics, Biology/Biotechnology, Dentistry (BDS), Microbiology/Parasitology, Public Health, and Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Admission into Medicine and Surgery, Pharmacy, Nursing and Dentistry closed on 6 September 2026.
Candidates who did not write JAMB may enrol in the university's one-year IJMB programme, after which they can be admitted directly into 200 level. Applicants need five credit passes at SSCE in English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. IJMB programmes include Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nursing Science, Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy, Optometry, Radiography, Human Anatomy, Public Health, Microbiology and Parasitology, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Computer Science, Biology/Biotechnology and the industrial sciences.
Inter-university transfer forms (including transfer to 400 level, clinical) and intra-faculty/department transfer forms are sold online each session.
The undergraduate application form costs ₦10,000. It can be bought online or paid for at any bank branch on the Remita platform to obtain a payment PIN; applicants then log in with phone number and PIN, complete the online form and print it. For 2026/2027, the sale of forms closed at 4:00 pm on 30 August 2026. Post-UTME screening and admission status checks are available through the admissions menu.
Acceptance-fee payment, the JAMB result slip, O-Level results, admission letter, JAMB change-of-institution print-out, sponsor consent letter, good-conduct undertakings, age declaration and a local government letter of identification are needed at registration, and school fees must be paid in full before arrival on campus. The 2023/2024 school fee, including hostel accommodation, was ₦1,030,000 for Medicine and Surgery; ₦730,000 for Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy, Optometry, and Radiography; and ₦530,000 for Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Computer Science, Industrial Physics, Industrial Chemistry, Industrial Mathematics, Biology/Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health and Microbiology/Parasitology.
Postgraduate admission is handled by the College of Postgraduate Studies through its own portal at dufuhspg.kdums.edu.ng.
Main campus, Uburu, Ohaozara LGA, Ebonyi State. The single campus houses the administrative and academic block, the senate chamber, faculty and departmental offices, the pre-degree school block, male and female hostel blocks, senior and junior staff quarters, a utility block and the university teaching hospital.
Uburu is known for the Mmahi salt lake, and lies in a rain-forest climate zone (rainy season April to September, dry season October to March).
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