University of Ibadan
has secured a spot in the top 978 ranked universities in the world.
In the ranking ranking
released by the Times Higher Education, Nigeria’s premier university was ranked
801 on the list.
UI was the only
Nigerian university to make the list.
Earlier in 2016, the
Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU) and the Center for World
Universities Ranking (CWUR) released a list of the top 500 and 1000 world
universities respectively and no Nigerian university was on the list.
CWUR said that
Nigerian universities were not considered for the ranking because of lack of
quality research.
AWRU, who did not give
a reason for Nigeria’s absence, made it clear that the criteria for ranking was
the number of alumni and staff publishing journals in Nature and Science,
number of alumni and staff winnng Nobel prizes and Field medals.
South Africa and Egypt
had the highest number of universities on the list from the black continent.
63 universities from the
United states made it to the top 200 while 32 from the United Kingdom also made
the cut.
United States (U.S)
had 63 universities among the hundreds of schools considered.
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