Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

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Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences                                                                          Motto: Gateway to Academic Programmes in Lautech.

Dean's Speech

Prof Oladipo

I welcome you to the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Lautech, Ogbomoso.




- Prof. A.T. Oladipo (Dean, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences)

About The Faculty

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology was established in the year 1990. It was located at its permanent site in Ogbomoso where it occupies the improved and rehabilitated facilities of the former Ogbomoso Girls High School. The first academic session began on the 19th October with a total of 436 students. The Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences which is one of the four foundation Faculty with which the University took off in 1990 comprises of five Deparments:

  • Deparments of Pure and Applied Biology
  • Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • Pure and Applied Mathematics
  • Pure and Applied Physics
  • General Studies

Of recent, two new departments have been added;

  • Deparments of Earth Sciences
  • Science Laboratory Technology.

Also, recently, the Deparments of Statistics took off as a full departments making a total of eight. The Faculty serves as the gateway to academic programmes in the University and provides the solid foundation upon which other Faculties of Agriculture, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences and Management Sciences build upon in later years off student's career. The Faculty prides itself as having one of the best crops of scientist in the nation and obviously the most developed human resource potential in the University. It is nested in the building at the heart of the University Campus closely neighboured by the College of Health Sciences and Faculty of Environmental Sciences. The Faculty operates in line with the University's Philosophy to produce well-informed graduates by providing students with basic theoretical and pratical aspects of sciences that would serve as a springboard to effective breakthrough in Agriculture, Environmental, Technological and Medical fields, and thus, prepare the students for good and effective services in the society. The students of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences are exposed to professionally-oriented curricula, with a very rich blend of theories and their applications. Hence the names of the Deparments go with the appellation "PURE AND APPLIED...". The Faculty has also incorporated into its curricula a number of courses that will be capable of being self-employed after graduation without necessarily looking for "white collar" jobs. The highly technical nature of our programmes in the Faculty, results in the following objectives, among others;

  1. To research into indigenous technologies so as to develop, modernize and relate them to social, cultural, technological and economic needs of the people of Oyo and Osun States in particular and Nigeria in general.
  2. To undertake any activities and programme appropriate for a University of Technology of the highest standard and to serve as a purposeful agency of development.

In carrying out the above objectives, the Faculty employs its skilled manpower of highly qualified lectures, technologists and administrative staff in the various Deparments who are always ready to assist and impact their knowledge on their students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.