The Delta State University, Abraka - popularly known as DELSU, is a State government university with a main campus located at Abraka, Delta and a campus at Anwai, Asaba. With the 1995 Amended Edict, we now have a campus at Oleh. The University runs a multi-campus system with three campuses within a distance of about 200 km apart. Currently, with a student population of about 36,000 (in the 2007/08 session), the University offers a range of programmes from the full-time certificate, diploma and degree programmes to part-time evening and weekend degree programmes. The University offers post-graduate studies up to a doctoral level. A staff/student counselling centre, an e-learning centre, student accommodation and sporting facilities amidst others are available support services.. It is one of twenty-five federal universities which are overseen and accredited by the National Universities Commission.
The mission of Delta State University is to promote quality education, character and cultural transformation, to meet the challenges of our time through exemplary scholarship and professionalism for the purpose of addressing local, national and international issues in key areas so as to contribute to the improvement of the global community

The mission of the University is to be a university of note, recognized for educational excellence and academic success which impacts society economically, intellectually and socially. It will be a university of difference which challenges students to the miracle of the mind and which encourages Nigerians to become leaders in every field of endeavour. The vision of the University is raising quality leaders using timely technology. The University believes that Nigeria is technologically a virgin land. Nigeria missed the 20th Century; it must not miss the 21st Century.

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ESSPIN is one of a set of DFID-funded State Level Programmes (SLPs), working in governance, accountability and the delivery of health and education services. DFID-ESSPIN supports federal and state authorities as they work both to reform the governance of education and to improve the quality of education that children receive.

ESSPIN is a partnership between the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) and the Nigerian Government. The eight and a half-year programme (2008 – 2017) supports federal and state governments – Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara and Lagos – to develop effective planning, financing and delivery systems that will improve the quality of schools, teaching and learning.

By 2017, ESSPIN will have had a significant impact on 11,308 public and non-government schools and approximately 4.7m learners.

The Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun(FUPRE), Delta State, Nigeria was established in March 2007 under a Federal Government of Nigeria initiative to build a specialized University to produce unique high level manpower and relevant expertise for the Oil & Gas sector in Nigeria and worldwide.

At first, it occupied the PTI Conference centre, Effurun Delta state, which is few kilometres away from the permanent site. The new site covered large hectares of land generously leased by the chiefs and people of Uviwe kingdom.

FUPRE is the first of its kind in Africa and it is destined to be the premier international institution-of-choice with the state-of-the-art facilities to provide the petroleum and allied sectors, world class education, training, research, consultancy and extension services.

FUPRE organise its academic activities along college lines. Under this arrangement, related Departments are grouped to form a College without an intervening tier of faculties.

The foundational College of the University was College of science with 113 foundation students. The foundation students began their courses at FUPRE, on May, 2007.

The College not only enrols its own students but serves as support for other colleges to be established. The General Studies and Entrepreneurship Unit was also established in the College to coordinate all programmes of the University aiming at producing rounded graduates with entrepreneurial skills.

The first SOD turning at the permanent site of the University, took place on 10 March, 2010.

VISION
The Vision of the University is to be the premier international institution with state-of-the-art facilities to provide for the petroleum and allied sectors, world-class education, training, research, consultancy and extension services.

MISSION
To create top quality human resource in order to enhance the local content in the Oil & Gas and Energy industry of the country.

To design, develop and deliver cutting edge education and training programmes for professionals in the industry.

To engage in research, consultancy and development activities in all technical and managerial aspects of the Oil & Gas sector.

To take the leadership role in promoting the economic development of the immediate community and the society at large through specific education, training and outreach activities.

PHILOSOPHY
The University has as its philosophy “To promote the advancement of knowledge and produce graduates who are technopreneurs with concern for the promotion of environmentally friendly technological solutions in the practice of their profession”.