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In 2019, there were 170 universities in Nigeria. 79 of them were private, 48 were state universities, while federal universities added up to 43.

Some of Nigeria's oldest universities are the University of Ibadan, the University of Nigeria, the Obafemi Awolowo University, and the University of Lagos. These four institutions were founded between the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1960s.