“This is a signpost to all of us who believe that Nigeria universities do not teach quality knowledge to begin to build confidence in the fact that Nigerian universities are great and of high standard nationally and internationally. I am particularly aware of how brilliantly well products of Nigerian universities particularly of University of Ilorin (public), Crescent University (private) are doing overseas either in employment or post-graduate studies. I congratulate myself for being a Nigerian,” a respondent told The DEFENDER in reacting to the new global ranking of University of Ibadan as one of 978 world’s top institutions of high standard.
The University of Ibadan has secured a spot in the top 978 ranked universities in the world.
In the ranking released by the Times Higher Education, the Nigeria’s premier university was ranked 801 alongside Hosei University Japan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia, I-Shou University Taiwan and the Islamic Azad University Karaja in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
UI was also the only Nigerian university to make the list.
It is however a point of note that the only Nigerian university to make world record, in recent statistics by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was not among first-to-third most patronized universities in Nigeria.
University of Ilorin for over four years has remained the nation’s most patronized as majority of Nigerian prospective, university admission seekers have tilted their academic destination of choice towards the university situated around Tanke and currently administered by Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali as Vice Chancellor.
The feat recorded by University of Ibadan, nonetheless, has been celebrated in certain quarters as it was seen to be another proof that public universities still remain on atop in knowledge delivery and character molding for prospective future leadership materials for any society.
This is so because, most of the people commenting, said at each stage when rating and ranking of university standards nationally and internationally had become necessary, the university that emerged had been a public university as clearly seen in University of Ilorin and University of Ibadan.
“This is a signpost to all of us who believe that Nigeria universities do not teach quality knowledge to begin to build confidence in the fact that Nigerian universities are great and of high standard nationally and internationally. I am particularly aware of how brilliantly well products of Nigerian universities particularly of University of Ilorin (public), Crescent University (private) are doing overseas either in employment or post-graduate studies. I congratulate myself for being a Nigerian,” a respondent told The DEFENDER in reacting to the new global ranking of University of Ibadan as one of 978 world’s top institutions of high standard.
Earlier in 2016, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU) and the Center for World Universities Ranking (CWUR) released a list of the top 500 and 1000 world universities respectively and no Nigerian university was on the list.
CWUR said that Nigerian universities were not considered for the ranking because of lack of quality research.
AWRU, who did not give a reason for Nigeria’s absence, made it clear that the criteria for ranking were the number of alumni and staff publishing journals in Nature and Science, number of alumni and staff winning Nobel prizes and Field medals.
South Africa and Egypt had the highest number of universities on the list from the continent.
63 universities from the United States made it to the top 200 while 32 from the United Kingdom also made the cut.
The United States had 63 universities among the hundreds of schools considered.
