Why it is on record
Owned by the Nigerian Baptist Convention; located at Iwo (Osun State) on the site of the historic Baptist College (1951). Named after the missionary Thomas Jefferson Bowen who founded the first Baptist mission in Yorubaland (1850). Strongest in nursing, allied health and biotechnology.
Record held
First Baptist-owned university in Nigeria (2001); built on the oldest continuously running Baptist tertiary institution in West Africa.
Deep dive
Bowen University, Iwo, was established in 2001 by the Nigerian Baptist Convention. Named for Thomas Jefferson Bowen, the American Baptist missionary who established the first Baptist mission in Yorubaland in the 1850s, the university anchors Baptist higher education in Nigeria.