Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (Known at inception as Oyo State University of Technology, Ogbomoso) came into being on the 23 rd April, 1990 when the then Military Governor of Oyo State , Late Colonel Sasaenia Adedeji Oresanya signed the Edict establishing the University. The event came as a culmination years of planning and persistent request for a State University by the people of them Oyo State (now Oyo and Osun State ). The Federal Military Government acceded to the state's request on the 13 th March, 1990.

On the 2 nd May, 1990, the Military Governor of Oyo State announced the appointment of Professor Olusegun Ladimeji Oke, FAS, a distinguished Chemist as the First Vice-Chancellor of the University while the names of the Pro-Chancellor, Late Professor Ojetunji Aboyade and other members of the first Governing Council were announced on the 28 th May, 1990. In January, 1991, the name of the Late Basorun M. K. O. Abiola was announced as the University's first Chancellor.

The first academic session began on the 19 th October, 1990, with a total of 436 candidates offered admission into various courses in the four foundation faculties of Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences. Establishment of the College of Health Sciences was postponed for a year and it took off in October 1991.

A Study of the academic performance of Secondary School Leavers during the first year in this University showed that there was a need for a refresher course which will prepare Senior Secondary School Leavers for their first year and subsequent years of study in the University. The Senate of this University proposed the Pre-Degree Science Programme in May 1994 to serve this need. The proprietor-states approved of the programme for reasons, which include that:

•  It would provide opportunity for the indigenes of Oyo and Osun State who might otherwise be unable to secure admission into the University because of inadequacies regarding their O'Level qualifications.

•  It would assist the University in attracting adequate number of candidates whose quality the University can ascertain since they are to pass through intramural training and testing of the University.

•  Such a programme would be self-sustaining and would generate the much needed funds for the University.

The Programme is administered by the Board of Pre-Degree Sciences Programme which determines curricula, the admission criteria, calendar for the programme, examinations and approval of results.

The programme took off in 1995 with close to two thousand applicants out of which about one thousand were offered admission while seven hundred and ninety-two were eventually registered.

At the end of the 1995 programme, close to 700 were admitted into the undergraduate programmes.