{"id":49752,"date":"2026-09-24T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/?post_type=university&#038;p=49752"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:49:42","slug":"mountain-top-university","status":"publish","type":"university","link":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/universities-and-colleges-directory\/nigeria\/mountain-top-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Top University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mountain Top University (MTU) is a private university in Makogi Oba, Ogun State, Nigeria, at Kilometre 12 on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in \u00ab\u00a0Prayer City,\u00a0\u00bb about 12km northeast of Lagos. It was founded by the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), a Pentecostal Christian denomination established in 1989 by Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya. The National Universities Commission granted MTU a provisional licence in 2015, and the university held its formal opening and inaugural matriculation ceremony on 21 December 2015. MTU is structured as a confederation of two colleges: Basic and Applied Sciences, and Humanities, Management and Social Sciences, spanning 15 departments, and offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and open distance e-learning (ODeL) programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MTU&rsquo;s motto is \u00ab\u00a0Empowered to Excel.\u00a0\u00bb The university is known for strict enforcement of spiritual activities and for having one of the strongest music departments in Nigeria. Following a 2024 NUC evaluation, MTU received full accreditation for programmes including Food Science and Technology, Biology, Biotechnology, Mass Communication, and Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49886,"template":"","country":[645],"class_list":["post-49752","university","type-university","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/university"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49887,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university\/49752\/revisions\/49887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uopeople.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=49752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}