FULL LIST: CU Named Nigeria’s Overall Best Varsity In THE Rankings 2024

Covenant University (CU), a private institution, is listed as Nigeria’s overall best university in THE 2024 Rankings......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>

THE Rankings, published annually by Times Higher Education, is a comprehensive global ranking of universities.

The higher education intelligence firm has released its 2024 data, capturing 1,907 universities across 108 countries and regions.

It assessed universities based on 18 indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

THE’s 2024 ranking analysed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally.

It collected 411,789 data points from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.

On the global scale, the UK’s University of Oxford tops the THE 2024 Rankings for the ninth year in a row.

With this, Oxford’s reign is now the longest in the ranking’s history, beating Harvard’s eight-year stint which ended in 2011.

Stanford University in the US moved up to second place, pushing the UK’s Harvard University down to fourth place.

The UK’s University of Cambridge slipped to fifth place in 2024, after being in joint third place in 2023.

THE’s Global Top-10 Best Universities

  1. University of Oxford, UK
  2. Stanford University, US
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
  4. Harvard University, US
  5. University of Cambridge, UK
  6. Princeton University, US
  7. California Institute of Technology, US
  8. Imperial College London, UK
  9. University of California, Berkeley US
  10. Yale University, US

Nigeria’s highest-ranking institution on the 2024 list is Covenant University (CU) which fell within the 800-1000 global scale alongside the University of Ibadan (UI).

Nigeria’s THE Overall Best Universities

  1. Covenant University
  2. University of Ibadan
  3. Federal University of Technology Akure
  4. University of Lagos
  5. Bayero University
  6. University of Ilorin
  7. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  8. Afe Babalola University
  9. University of Benin
  10. Federal University ofAgriculture, Abeokuta
  11. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
  12. Lagos State University
  13. Nnamdi Azikiwe University
  14. Obafemi Awolowo University
  15. University of Port Harcourt
  16. Abia State University
  17. Akwa Ibom State University
  18. Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
  19. Babcock University
  20. Baze University
  21. Bells University of Technology
  22. Benson Idahosa University
  23. Delta State University, Abraka
  24. Edo State University, Uzairue
  25. Edwin Clarke University
  26. Elizade University
  27. Evangel University, Akaeze
  28. Federal University of Kashere
  29. Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun
  30. Federal University of Technology, Minna
  31. Federal University of Technology, Owerri
  32. Fountain University
  33. Landmark University
  34. Nasarawa State University, Keffi
  35. Niger Delta University
  36. Plateau State University, Bokkos
  37. Thomas Adewumi University
  38. Veritas University, Abuja
  39. Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano

On a national scale, however, Covenant University is listed as Nigeria’s best across teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

Rankings like THE are used by prospective students, employers, and governments as a benchmark to evaluate universities.

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