This is one of the state Universities in Nigeria and it is located at Calabar, Cross river state, Southern Nigeria. A state University is owned by the state government and is mostly sustained by the resources of that government.

The?Hope Waddell Training Institute?(HWTI) is a school in?Calabar,?Cross River State,?Nigeria?founded by missionaries from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland?in 1895. It is named after the Reverend Hope Masterton Waddell.