Only two Nigerian universities, University of Ibadan and the University of Nigeria (UNN) made the world’s best 2,000 universities in the 2020/2021 ranking released by the Centre for World University Ranking.
Both universities, who presently hold national rankings of first and second in Nigeria, could not make top 1,000 as the Premier University is ranked 1,163 while University of Nigeria, Nsukka returned as 1,882 in the world.
Unlike Nigerian universities, the first thirteen universities in South Africa made the best 2,000 universities while seven of them made the best one thousand varsities in the world.
These are University of Cape Town (268), University of Witwatersrand (275), Stellenbosch University (429), University of Kwazulu-natal (477), University of Pretoria (578), University of Johannesburg (706), North-west University (922)
By this ranking University of Ibadan is 8th in Africa followed by University of Western Cape, South Africa (1,158) that is ranked 9th on the continent.
The Centre for World University ranking utilised quality of education which is measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major academic distinctions relative to the university’s size, alumni employment (number of alumni who have held a top executive position at world’s largest economy), quality of faculty (number of a university faculty who have won major academic distinctions), and research performance ( measured by the total number of a research paper, high-quality publications in top-tier journals, influence and citations) to arrive at the latest ranking.
Reacting to the ranking, Chairman University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ayo Akinwole stated that the ranking vindicates the struggle by ASUU to make government commit not less than 26 per cent of her national budget to education lamenting that the best the Muhammadu Buhari government has done is to reduce the budget yearly to about 6 per cent at present.
Both universities, who presently hold national rankings of first and second in Nigeria, could not make top 1,000 as the Premier University is ranked 1,163 while University of Nigeria, Nsukka returned as 1,882 in the world.
Unlike Nigerian universities, the first thirteen universities in South Africa made the best 2,000 universities while seven of them made the best one thousand varsities in the world.
These are University of Cape Town (268), University of Witwatersrand (275), Stellenbosch University (429), University of Kwazulu-natal (477), University of Pretoria (578), University of Johannesburg (706), North-west University (922)
By this ranking University of Ibadan is 8th in Africa followed by University of Western Cape, South Africa (1,158) that is ranked 9th on the continent.
The Centre for World University ranking utilised quality of education which is measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major academic distinctions relative to the university’s size, alumni employment (number of alumni who have held a top executive position at world’s largest economy), quality of faculty (number of a university faculty who have won major academic distinctions), and research performance ( measured by the total number of a research paper, high-quality publications in top-tier journals, influence and citations) to arrive at the latest ranking.
Reacting to the ranking, Chairman University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ayo Akinwole stated that the ranking vindicates the struggle by ASUU to make government commit not less than 26 per cent of her national budget to education lamenting that the best the Muhammadu Buhari government has done is to reduce the budget yearly to about 6 per cent at present.
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