Madonna University is a private university in Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

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Founded on 10 May, 1999 in Ihiala

Ihiala

Ihiala is a city in Nigeria, located in the south of the state Anambra, and has long served as the local administrative capital of the zone. The population is about 87,796 persons....

, Anambra State

Anambra State

Anambra is a state in south-eastern Nigeria. Its name is an anglicized version of the original 'Oma Mbala', the native name of the Anambra River. The Capital and the Seat of Government is Awka. Onitsha and Nnewi are the biggest commercial and industrial cities, respectively. The state's theme is...

, it was established by E.M.P. Edeh (Very Rev. Fr. Prof. E. M. P. Edeh (CSSP) (OFR)).
Edeh had founded Our Saviour Institute of Science and Technology

Our Saviour Institute of Science and Technology

Our Saviour Institute of Science and Technology is a privately owned polytechnic in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria established in 1989. It was founded by the Catholic priest Rev. Fr. Prof...

 in Enugu

Enugu

Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in the southeastern area of Nigeria and is largely populated by members of the Igbo ethnic group. The city has a population of 722,664 according to the 2006 Nigerian census. The name Enugu is derived from the two Igbo words Enu Ugwu...

 the previous year.

The university offers various courses including Law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

, Management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

, Medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

, Pharmacy

Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

 and Engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

. The courses are accredited by the National Universities Commission, and the admission requirements are a minimum of 5 credits at no more than two sittings of the O-level schools Certificate Examination.

The Vice-Chancellor is Prof. Iwe Akubue who succeeded Late Prof. N.C. Azubuike. The science campus has a university teaching hospital which is located at Elele

Elele

Elele is a town in Rivers State, Nigeria. The towns indigenous ethnic group are the Ikwerre people who are a sub group of the igbo....

 in Rivers State

Rivers State

Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Port Harcourt. It is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean, to the North by Imo, Abia and Anambra States, to the East by Akwa Ibom State and to the West by Bayelsa and Delta states...

, a few kilometres away from its main campus at Okija

Okija

Okija is a town in Ihiala LGA, Anambra State in Nigeria. It is home to the Okija shrine, which is dedicated now to[jesus christ], an Igbo deity....

, where its take off campus is also located.