Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) is a state government owned and operated Nigerian university.^[1] The university is located in Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.

Adekunle Ajasin University was first established as Obafemi Awolowo University in March 1982 by the government of the old Ondo State, headed by the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin.^[2] The immediately succeeding military government of Navy Commodore Michael Bamidele Otiko changed its name to Ondo State University in 1985^{[citation needed]}. Its relocation to Akungba Akoko in the new Ondo State became imperative in 1999, following the creation of a new state out of the old Ondo three years earlier in October 1996. The bill backing the relocation was signed into law by the then Governor of the State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, in November 1999, and that prompted the movement of a crop of workers from the old site in Ado-Ekiti to Akungba Akoko on 1 December 1999. The bill for yet another name change, this time to Adekunle Ajasin University, in order to immortalise the late Governor Ajasin, was signed into law by Governor Adefarati in 2004 following the demise of the former. The amended and subsisting statute of the university was signed into law in November 2007 by yet another governor, the former Governor Olusegun Agagu^{[citation needed]}. In these circumstances, it can rightly be said that while the history of AAUA started in 1982, its relocation on 5 November 1999 marked the beginning of the second phase of its history now in its present location, Akungba Akoko.^[3]

Adekunle Ajasin University offers undergraduate and post-graduate as well as Pre-degree, JUPEB programmes in fields of specialization ranging from Science, Arts, Education, Law, Social and Management sciences, Agricultural science, Environmental Design and Management.

The university has seven (7) faculties^[4]

Below is the list of departments^[5] Archived 24 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine:

The AAUA Students' Union (AAUASU) has a large population of over 20,000 students.

On May 23, 2023, the 7th e-voting President of the union, Comrade Adekanye Mayomi known on Campus as "INEC" was inaugurated for the 2022–2023 session after the election on May 4, 2023^[6]

He became the first AAUA Students' Union President to be an indigene of, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State and from the Department of Philosophy, AAUA.

AAUA's Sports Complex, provides indoor and out-door sports such as taekwondo, table tennis, badminton, soccer, basketball, cricket, judo, track and field events that encourage staff and students to keep fit physically.^[7] The centre is equipped with ultra-modern facilities which include a large gymnasium, Standard football pitch, Tennis court, and many other sports. AAUA students participate in competitive sports such as the Nigerian University Games Association and West African University's Games.^[8]

AAUA also participated in the Higher Institutions Football League (HiFL) 2021^[9] AAUA played at the final of the HiFL against UNIMAID where they won the second-place position.^[10]

The Vice Chancellors are assisted by two deputy Vice Chancellors, both Academic and Administration.

• During the wave of the #COVID-19 Pandemic, Scientists in the university with partners from^[17] National Biotechnology Development Agency and Afe Babalola University conducted a research titled "Aframomum melegueta secondary metabolites exhibit polypharmacology against SARS-CoV-2 drug targets: in vitro validation of furin inhibition" which resulted into the findings that Aframomum melegueta shows some potential for treating Covd-19.

The scientists out of which five are professors include: Olaposi Omotuyi, Oyekanmi Nash, Basiru O Ajiboye, Victor O Olumekun, Babatunji E Oyinloye, Oludare T Osuntokun, Adebisi Olonisakin, A Olajide Ajayi, Olasehinde Olusanya, Funmilola S Akomolafe, Niyi Adelakun.^[18]

• Akintewe Oluwadamiloa, a student of the university was the only Nigerian that made the top 10 shortlist for the inaugural Global Student Prize 2021 by Chegg and Varkey Foundation.^[19]

• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Art
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Environmental Design and Management
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of The Social Sciences
• Faculty of Administration and Management Sciences

• College Of Education, Lanlate^[20]

• The Postgraduate school, Adekunle Ajasin University
• Statue of Adekunle Ajasin at Adekunle Ajasin University
• Senate building, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba

• Tunji Disu, police officer
• Ized Uanikhehi, business executive