Overview

Key facts:

The Classics programme is offered at the University Of Ibadan.

The Department has thus continued to play a valuable role in the work of the Faculty. Its courses remain basically directed to the study of the civilization of the Greeks and Romans, two of the great civilizations of history, and ones which have affected developments in many parts of the world, including Africa.
Students majoring in Classics now take two compulsory courses on the Ancient History and Archaeology of North and North-East Africa, while at the same time obtaining inter alia, first-hand acquaintance with the great philosophers of antiquity notably Plato and Aristotle, dramatists such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the historical masterpieces of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy and Tacitus, the oratory scholarship and humanism of Cicero and the poetic genius of Homer, Virgil and Horace, all of whom continue to exert a salutary influence on modern thought and letters.

Programme Structure

Students majoring in classics and also in other disciplines are brought into touch with these great minds of antiquity through courses taught in English translations and those which deal with the Classical foundations of some of man’s more recent intellectual and artistic achievements. There are courses, for example, on the Classical Tradition in English and French Literature and on the Historical Background of the New Testament. Students taking courses of this kind now constitute a large proportion of the total enrolment for courses given by the Department.
Worthy of note also is the fact that Classics graduates of earlier and more contemporary times have rendered and continue to render splendid service in a wide variety of occupations.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-21 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ibadan, Nigeria

Disciplines

Classics

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

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Scholarships Information

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