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UNILAG, UI Lose Top Ranking As CU Emerges Best Nigerian University In 2024 [Full list]

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Covenant University (CU), a private institution in Nigeria, has been ranked as the country’s top university in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings.

The prestigious global ranking, published annually by Times Higher Education, evaluates universities worldwide.

Completing Nigeria’s top 5 universities are the University of Ibadan which came in second, the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), the University of Lagos (UNILAG), and Bayero University, Kano, in third, fourth, and fifth position respectively.

For the 2024 edition, THE assessed 1,907 universities from 108 countries and regions using 18 performance indicators. These indicators measure an institution’s achievements in areas such as teaching, research environment, research quality, industry engagement, and international outlook.

The 2024 ranking involved the analysis of over 134 million citations from 16.5 million research publications and survey responses from 68,402 scholars worldwide. Additionally, 411,789 data points were collected from 2,673 institutions that submitted data for consideration.

On the global stage, the University of Oxford in the UK retained its top position for the ninth consecutive year, marking the longest reign in THE Rankings’ history, surpassing Harvard University’s eight-year lead that ended in 2011. Stanford University (US) rose to second place, while Harvard dropped to fourth. The University of Cambridge (UK) fell to fifth place in 2024, after sharing the third position in 2023.

Nigeria’s Overall Best Universities

Covenant University

University of Ibadan

Federal University of Technology Akure

University of Lagos

Bayero University

 

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University of Ilorin

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Afe Babalola University

University of Benin

Federal University ofAgriculture, Abeokuta

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

Lagos State University

Nnamdi Azikiwe University

Obafemi Awolowo University

University of Port Harcourt

Abia State University

Akwa Ibom State University

Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike

Babcock University

Baze University

Bells University of Technology

Benson Idahosa University

Delta State University, Abraka

Edo State University, Uzairue

Edwin Clarke University

Elizade University

Evangel University, Akaeze

Federal University of Kashere

Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun

Federal University of Technology, Minna

Federal University of Technology, Owerri

Fountain University

Landmark University

Nasarawa State University, Keffi

Niger Delta University

Plateau State University, Bokkos

Thomas Adewumi University

Veritas University, Abuja

Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano


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