Lagos State University, Ojo

Lagos State University (LASU) is a public university owned by Lagos State, established in 1983 by the enabling law of the state. Its vision is the advancement of learning and academic excellence, and its mission is to be a citadel of learning, a community with the trademark of excellence in teaching, research and service to humanity. The main campus is at Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria.

Academic work is organised into faculties, colleges and schools. The faculties are Allied Health Sciences (Medical Laboratory Sciences, Physiotherapy, Radiography), Arts, Clinical Sciences, Computing and Information Technology, Education, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Law, Management Sciences, Science and Social Sciences. The College of Basic Medical Sciences and the College of Dentistry sit alongside the Faculty of Clinical Sciences in the health and medical area. The schools are Agriculture, Communications, Creativity, Culture and Tourism Studies, Library Archival and Information Science, Transport and Postgraduate Studies.

Departments include Chemical, Mechanical, Electronics and Computer, Aerospace and Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering; Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Insurance, Marketing and Public Administration in Management Sciences; Economics, Geography and Planning, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology in Social Sciences; and Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics and Zoology in Science. The Faculty of Law has departments of Business Law, International and Islamic Law, Jurisprudence and International Law, and Public and Private Law. Medicine, Nursing, Surgery, Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology and the dental disciplines are taught in the medical colleges and faculty.

Beyond full-time degrees, LASU runs sandwich and part-time programmes (including weekend part-time degrees through the School of Part Time Studies in Management Sciences), diploma, certificate and conversion programmes, an Open and Distance Learning Research Institute (ODLRI), a JUPEB foundation programme, a pre-degree programme, postgraduate study and a special programme of 79 entrepreneurship certificate courses ranging from fish farming and digital marketing to tailoring, hotel management and cyber security. Research and special units include the Centre for Marine and Blue Economy (CEMBER), the Centre for Peace and Security Studies, the Centre for Planning Studies, the Centre for General Nigerian Studies, a Career Development Centre, LASU Consult, and the Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education (ACEITSE).