Borno State University
Borno State University is Borno State government-owned university located Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria. It was established in 2016. It has five faculties with over 20 departments. The pioneer and current vice chancellor of the university is Prof. Umar Kyari Sandabe. In June 2021, the university's senate building was inaugurated by Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria. The institution's pioneer Vice-Chancellor was Prof. Umar Kyari Sandabe. In October 2024, Prof. Babagana Gutti was appointed as the substantive Vice-Chancellor.
In January 2025, Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno State approved the renaming of the institution to Kashim Ibrahim University, Maiduguri, to honour the first Northern Nigeria’s first Governor, Sir Kashim Ibrahim.
Faculties
- Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Faculty of Arts and Education
- Faculty of Sciences
- College of Medical and Health Sciences
Courses
- Accounting
- Agriculture
- Animal and Environmental Biology
- Biotechnology
- Business Administration
- Chemistry
- Computer science
- Criminology and Security Studies
- Economics
- Education and Biology
- Education and Chemistry
- Education and Computer Science
- Education and Economics
- Education and English Language
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Education and Mathematics
- Education and Physics
- Educational Management
- English Language
- Geography
- Guidance and Counselling
- Islamic Studies
- Literature in English
- Mass Communication
- Mathematics
- Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
- Physics
- Plant Science and Biotechnology
- Political Science
- Public administration
- Sociology
- Statistics
- Teacher Education Science