The University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG), among other Nigerian institutions made it to this year’s list of the world’s best universities.
This is according to the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings released on Wednesday.
According to a report published on the THE website, 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions were ranked.
The ranking was conducted based on 13 calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
According to the global ranking, the University of Oxford tops the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in second place, but the University of Cambridge jumps from joint fifth last year to joint third.
Five countries enter the ranking for the first time, all of them in Africa: Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mauritius.
In Nigeria, the UI led the pack in the 401-500 range in the global rankings, followed by UNILAG which occupied the second position.
The two are succeeded by faith-based Covenant University which was ranked within the 601—800 set of the 1,799 institutions entered.
Others in the fourth, fifth and sixth position are Bayero University, Kano, Federal University of Technology, Akure, and the University of Benin.
Other institutions in order of rankings are: the University of Illorin, University Nigeria, Nsukka, Obafemi Awolowo University, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Adamawa State University, Akwa Ibom State University, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, American University of Nigeria, Augustine University.
Babcock University, Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science, and Technology, Baze University, Bells University of Technology, Benson Idahosa University, Bowen University, Coal City University.
Cross River University of Technology, Ebonyi State University, Edo State University, Evangel University, Federal University, Gashua, Federal University of Kashere, Federal University of Lafia, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun.
Federal University of Technology, Minna, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, First Technical University, Fountain University, Gregory University, Uturu, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education.
University of Jos, Kings University, Lagos State University, Landmark University, Michael and Cecilia Ibru University, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Niger Delta University, Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil.
Novena University, Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Salem University, Samuel Adegboyega University, Sokoto University, Umar Musa Yar’Adua University.
Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, University of Uyo, Veritas University, Abuja, Wellspring University, and Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano.
One comment
Foluke
October 17, 2022 at 6:28 am
With all these long strikes, Nigerian universities still made it? God blesses University of ibadan and others.