The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has emerged as the university in Nigeria with the highest number of international student enrollment.
A director of the institution, Mrs Olasheinde-Williams revealed this at the 10th International Students’ Day celebration held at the University on Tuesday.
According to Mrs Williams, International Student enrolment now stands at over 300 from about 15 countries across the African sub-region. She further added that the foreign students are pursuing courses in the Immersion, Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes of the University.
Mrs Williams added that this Semester alone, the university attracted 142 undergraduate and 10 postgraduate students from 13 countries.
She also said the university currently has 15 international staff members apart from those who come to different departments on exchange or research programmes.
“To date we have international staff and students from 20 countries, including Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
“Other countries include Japan, Liberia, Libya, Niger Republic, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Pakistan and Togo among others,” she said.
According to NAN, she noted that the Centre liaises with the university administration to provide conducive work, social and living environment for International Staff.
Mrs Olasheinde-Williams also said the University, through the Centre’s facilitation, has spent over N40 million TETFund grants on university staff for international conference attendance to different parts of the world.
“In the last batch alone, 23 TETFund conference grants, totaling N34.56 million, were secured for staff across various faculties of the university,” she said.