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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
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
Global Top-10 Best Universities
University of Oxford, UK
Stanford University, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Harvard University, US
University of Cambridge, UK
Princeton University, US
California Institute of Technology, US
Imperial College London, UK
University of California, Berkeley US
Yale University, US
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