Presently, Oyo State has 2,004
public schools (primary), 971 private nursery/primary schools, 969 public secondary schools including 7 schools of Science and 57 private secondary schools. The state also has five government
technical colleges at
Oyo,
Ogbomoso,
Ibadan, Shaki-Okeogun and Iseyin-Okeogun with enrolment of 2,829 students in the 2000/2001 academic session. The National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) permanent orientation camp is located in Iseyin. The Ebedi Writers' Residency situated at the hill-side of barracks area of Iseyin is an international residency that has brought great writers, journalists and authors all over the world including Africa's first Nobel Laureate, Prof.
Wole Soyinka, Jumoke Verissiomo, Funmi Aluko, Richard Ali, Paul Liam and others. Historically prominent secondary schools include
St Anne's School Ibadan (1869),
Wesley College, Ibadan (1905),
Ibadan Grammar School (1913),
Government College, Ibadan (1927), St Theresa's College Ibadan (1932), Ibadan Boys' High School (1938),
Olivet Heights Oyo (1945),
Queen's School, Ibadan (1952),
Loyola College, Ibadan (1954), St. Bernadine's Oyo (1957), Lagelu Grammar School Ibadan (1958), Iseyin District Grammar School Iseyin (1964), Methodist High School, Ibadan (1961) St Patrick's Grammar School Ibadan (1962) and several others. It is also home to Africa's leading fountain of knowledge, the iconic University of Ibadan (The university was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London, then it was called the University College, Ibadan). Two new technical colleges located at Iseyin, Iseyin Local Government area and Ikija in Oluyole Local Government area were established in the 2001/2002 academic session. A college of education, Oyo State College of Education, Oyo. There is a Polytechnic,
The Polytechnic, Ibadan and Shaki-Okeogun, (now known as The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic) and a State-owned University, The
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso which is jointly owned by Oyo and
Osun State Governments. The federal premier university The
University of Ibadan is also located in the State capital. A private Polytechnic (SAF Polytechnic, Iseyin) is located in Iseyin. There is a vocational Institute in Saki West Local Government named: The Kings Poly, Shaki-Okeogun. There are also the
Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Ibadan;
Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, the Federal School of Surveying, Oyo;
Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), the Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT), the Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan (FEDCOFOR), a subsidiary of
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) and the
Nigerian Institute Of Social And Economic Research (NISER), all in Ibadan. Similarly, there are 15 Nomadic schools in the State. They are Gaa Jooro and Gaa Baale, both in Kisi (Irepo Local Government); Baochilu Government; Arin-Oye, Abiogun, Okaka and Baba-Ode (Itesiwaju Local Government); Iganna (Iwajowa Local Government); Igangan and Ayete (Ibarapa North Local Government); Gaa Kondo and Igbo-Ora, (Ibarapa Central Local Government) and Sepeteri (Saki East Local Government). There are 213
continuing education centres spread all over the State. 15 special primary schools and 8 special units in secondary schools cater for handicapped children. There are 11,732 teaching staff in the state public secondary schools and 2,789 non-teaching staff. The Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education (AANFE) caters for illiterate adults who had no opportunity of formal education. The agency has 455 classes in existence in the 33 Local Government areas of the State, while 200,000 illiterate adults and over 80,000 post-illiterate adults have been trained recently.
List of universities The following are universities located within Oyo State; •
Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo •
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso •
Lead City University, Ibadan •
University of Ibadan •
Àtìbà University, Ọ̀yọ́ •
Dominican University, Ibadan •
Oyo State Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State •
Dominion University, Ibadan •
Emmanuel Alayande University of Education List of polytechnics •
Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa •
Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo-Ora •
The Polytechnic, Ibadan •
Federal Polytechnic Ayede, Ogbomoso •
Oke-Ogun Polytechnic List of specialized tertiary institutions •
Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan •
Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan •
Federal Cooperative College, Ibadan •
Federal School of Statistics, Ibadan •
Federal School of Surveying, Oyo List of special colleges •
Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo •
Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo-Ora •
Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Moor plantation Ibadan (FCAHPT) •
Federal College of Agriculture Ibadan •
Oyo State College Of Nursing and Midwifery, Eleyele, Ibadan •
Oyo State College of Health Science and Technology, Eleyele, Ibadan •
The College of Education, Lanlate.
List of registered private polytechnics •
Bolmor Polytechnic, Ibadan •
City Polytechnic, Ibadan •
Kings Polytechnic, Saki •
SAF Polytechnic, Iseyin •
Tower Polytechnic, Ibadan Transport The Federal University of Agriculture and Technology Okeho was approved in 2025 also in Oyo state. ==Transport==