This study focused on the analysis of labour migration tendency of academic professionals in federal universities in South East, Nigeria. It employed the descriptive survey research design. Three research questions guided the study. Sample random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 609 academic professionals from the area of this study which represents10% of the total population of 6109 academic professionals in federal universities in south east, Nigeria. A questionnaire titled Labour migration tendency index questionnaire (LMTIQ), which contained 30 items, designed on a 4 point scale and arranged into 3 three clusters, was used as an instrument for data collection for this study. The instrument was validated by three experts who are lecturers in the department of Educational Management and Policy and Measurement and Evaluation in the department of Educational Foundations all in the Faculty of Education, NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka. Cronbach-alpha was used to test reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient value of 0.80. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that the pull factors of high salary packages, improved work environment, staff welfare and social-security benefits, developed physical facility development and flexible employment policies contribute to academic professionals' labour migration tendency. Based on the findings, it was recommended among other things, that the government and policy makers and university administrators should reduce instances of the push factors in the system by providing adequate motivational strategies that will encourage academic professionals to stay in this country and develop the university education.