MOUAU effectively took off on May 3, 1993, when the University admitted its foundational students. At the epoch of the institution’s history, only Eighty-two (82) students were enrolled to pursue various courses of study. This figure is at great variance with the recent statistics that put the students’ population at about twenty-seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty (27,750) undergraduates, four thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight (4,598) postgraduates and six thousand, seven hundred and thirty (6,730) part-time students at the Continuing Education Centre (CEC). The total number of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike students currently stands at around thirty-nine thousand and seventy-eight (30,078).

The University is made up of about eleven colleges with fifty departments, two schools and sixteen directorates. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, is envisioned to be a University par excellence and hopes to help the peoples of Nigeria and beyond through the provision of practical knowledge for agricultural transformation in order to achieve sustainable food production.

Our current Vice-Chancellor is Professor Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe. He is a distinguished professor at the university’s Department of Food Science and Technology (FST) who succeeded the (LATE)Prof. Francis Ogbonnaya Otunta as the sixth substantive Vice-Chancellor of the university. He is also a Professor of Food Science Technology and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the university. He assumed office on Tuesday, March 1, 2021.