The study of Yorùbá seems to be more fancied abroad than at home in Nigeria. For instance, while there are only 11 (eleven) universities with Yorùbá programmes in Nigeria, the following 36 (thirty six) universities have Yorùbá programmes in the United States of America (USA):

1 University of Wisconsin – Madison
2 New York University
3 Carnegie Mellon University
4 Georgetown University
5 University of Mayland
6 University of Chicago
7 Seattle University
8 Arizonal State University
9 University of Illinois
10 University of California
11 Bowie State University
12 American University
13 Trinity University
14 University of Florida
15 Cornell University
16 University of Texas – Austin
17 Harvard University
18 Columbia University
19 Stanford University
20 Michigan State University
21 University of Georgia – Athens
22 Howard University
23 Rutgers University
24 Indiana University
25 University of Pennsylvania
26 Brown University
27 Yale University
28 State University of New York
29 Albany State University
30 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
31 Fayetteville State University
32 University of North Carolina
33 Morgan State University (off-and-on basis)
34 Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York
35 Bernard College
36 Buffalo State College

[Source: Centre for Yorùbá Language Engineering (CEYOLENG), John Paul 11 Building, University of Ìbàdàn, Ìbàdàn, Nigeria].

NB: The implication of the above development is that, if appropriate, sufficient and timely care is not taken, foreign teachers would have to be recruited from overseas to teach Yorùbá to future generations of Yorùbá children in their motherland!