The University of Port Harcourt is a public research university located in Aluu and Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It was established in 1975 as University College, Port Harcourt and was given full university status in 1977. It opened with six schools in the humanities, social sciences, biological, chemical and physical sciences and educational studies, and in 1982 it changed from a school system to a faculty system. It now has more than a dozen faculties, among them engineering, law, dentistry, agriculture, computing and media studies, together with a college of health sciences. Times Higher Education ranked it first in Nigeria and sixth in Africa in 2015.
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is a public research university located in Aluu and Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
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is a public research university located in Aluu and Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
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It was established in 1975 as University College, Port Harcourt
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