The university is located at Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.

The process of founding Anchor University was billed for September 2012 but suffered a huge setback as the representatives of the NUC coming for final inspection and approval of their multi-billion projects were in the ill-fated Dana Air crash.

Professor Celestine Onwuliri, husband of a serving minister and an executive director with the Nigerian Universities Commission was among the over 157 victims that died in the Dana Air crash which occurred on Sunday, June 3, 2012.

[7] Head of library and information science in anchor university is Mrs Taiwo Akinde.

[8] There is a development of Library app in the school that made the cataloging to be very easy to access.