The university is located in the city of Abomey-Calavi in the south of the country.

The university has a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered at a range of locations across the area.

It is a member school of the Association of African Universities and Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.

The university was founded in 1970 as the Université du Dahomey.

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