Bowen University
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Bowen University is a private Nigerian university owned and operated by the Nigerian Baptist Convention. Bowen University is located at Iwo in Osun State, and is housed in the old 1,300 acre (6 km²) campus of the Baptist College, a teacher-training institution on a beautiful hill just outside the city.
Bowen University opened on November 4, 2002 as a residential institution with less than 500 students. It has a current enrollment of about 3,000 students, and a target capacity of at least 5,500 students. The idea of a Nigerian Baptist university was conceived in 1938, and endorsed in 1957 by the Nigerian Baptist Convention.
The university is named in honor of Rev. Thomas Jefferson Bowen, the first American Baptist missionary from the Southern Baptist Convention who arrived in Nigeria in 1850 and started work in the southwestern city of Abeokuta.
Bowen University is "conceived as a centre of learning and research of distinction, combining academic excellence with love of humanity, borne out of a God-fearing attitude, in accordance with the Baptist tradition of ethical behavior, social responsibility and democratic ethos".
The University presently comprises 3 faculties in which 22 accredited courses are offered including Industrial Chemistry, Plant Biology, Computer Science and Information Technology, Biochemistry in the Faculty of Science and Science education. Plant Science, Animal Science, Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture. The Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, the university's largest, includes Human Communications, Banking and Finance, Economics.
