SEE FULL LIST: UI, UNILAG, CU ranked as Nigeria’s top three universities for 2023
The University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG), and Covenant University (CU) have been ranked as Nigeria’s top three varsities for 2023.
Times Higher Education (THE) released its latest world university rankings on Wednesday.
The list includes 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions.
The ranking table is based on 13 performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas including teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.
The ranking analysed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.
Overall, THE collected over 680,000 data points from more than 2,500 institutions that submitted data.
Queried based on the summation of all the indicators, the database showed that UI was ranked first in the 401-500 set, followed by UNILAG also ranked within the same set.
The two are succeeded by CU which was ranked within the 601-800 set of the 1799 institutions entered.
See the full list below;
University of Ibadan
University of Lagos
Covenant University
Federal University of Technology, Akure
University of Benin
University of Ilorin
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Obafemi Awolowo University
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Adamawa State University, Mubi
Akwa Ibom State University
Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
American University of Nigeria
Augustine University
Babcock University
Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science, and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti
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, Uzairue
Evangel University, Akaeze
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
Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano