This is an empirical paper that investigated public-private partnership as a panacea for infrastructural development in Nigerian Universities using the University of Maiduguri as a case study. The paper had an objective and corresponding research question. Survey research was adopted for the study. A sample of 80 respondents was selected using simple random sampling techniques out of the population of 100. A questionnaire was design by the research and validated by expert. The reliability of the instrument was tested using test- retest and a reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained signifying that the instrument was reliable. Data gathered was analyzed using descriptive statistic of frequency counts, percentage, mean and ranks. The finding of the study was that public private partnership has significantly improve students accommodation/hostels. The study concludes that public private partnership has improved infrastructural development in the University of Maiduguri. The study recommended among others the needs to encourage public private participation.