Lagos State University, also known as LASU, is located in Ojo, a town in Lagos State, Nigeria. The university was established in 1983 by the enabling law of Lagos State, for the advancement of learning and establishment of academic excellence; its motto being For Truth and Service. The university caters for over 35,000 students.

The University was established during the Administration of Late Lateef Kayode Jakande. The university offers diploma, degree and post graduate programmes, including an MBA programme. LASU was ranked among the top 600 universities in the world by in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2020. On 23 June, 2021 LASU emerged as the best young university in Nigeria having been below the age of 50 years to be added.

Times Higher Education ranked the Lagos State University as the second best university in Nigeria on the 2 September 2020, and was the only state university included in the rankings for 2022. The university has attracted international funding, including for the establishment of a World Bank Group Africa Centre for Excellence on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The university has three major campuses, at Ojo, Ikeja and Epe.

The university was conceived as a multi-campus and non-residential University. It operates a multi-campus system with four fully owned campuses having its main campus at Ojo (along the Badagry Expressway) and other campuses at Epe (where the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Agriculture are located), Ikeja (where the College of Medicine is situated in at Lasuth).

A 300 seat theatre hall is under construction at the school's main campus in Ojo by the Awori Welfare Association of Nigeria (AWAN). The project site is opposite the Babatunde Raji Fashola Senate House. It is flanked by a new library building, which is still under construction, and the existing student affairs building. When finished, the building will serve as a lecture hall for students with offices and secretariat.

The university began with three faculties: Commerce and Business Administration, Law and Medicine. The Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration was changed to the Faculty of Business and Social Studies at its first meeting the board. The faculties of Arts, Education, Engineering and Science were added later.

                      2022/2023 INDIGENESHIP VERIFICATION EXERCISE FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE INDIGENES OF LAGOS STATE

All Candidates of Lagos State Origin who chose Lagos State University as First Choice in the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination [UTME] and scored a minimum of 185 are hereby informed that the registration for Indigeneship Verification Exercise for the 2022/2023 Admission Exercise.

Date: Monday, 26th September, 2022 to close on Thursday, 27th October, 2022.

The Verification Interview Time: 8.00am - 4.00pm Daily from Monday, 26th September, 2022

This is only for all Lagos State Indigenes who have chosen LASU as their first choice for the 2022/2023 Admission, the University Community as well as the General Public should take note.

                                                                                                  GENERAL INFORMATION

Please NOTE that ONLY Candidates who are of Lagos State Origin are eligible for screening. Candidates in this category are expected to be CLEARED by the Independent Indigeneship Verification Committee [IIVC] BEFORE being screened and cleared by the officers assigned for the Central Screening Exercise

DISCLAIMER: Any applicant who pays money to any individual/other account/or through other means aside from the above, does so, to his/her own disadvantage.The Indigeneship Verification Exercise does not guarantee or serves as a proof of an admission into the Lagos State University..

ONLY THOSE WHO SCORED 185 AND ABOVE IN THE 2022/2023 UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS [UTME] ARE ELIGIBLE.

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