Nigeria - The University of Ibadan has finally been ranked among 1,000 best universities in the world, The Gorefront has learnt.
The latest ranking by the top rated organisation Times Higher Education (THE) showed that University of Ibadan is the only Nigerian university that made it to the top 1,000 globally ranked universities.
The latest ranking was based on Teaching , Research, Citations of scholarly publications, Industry Income and International outlook.
In the latest 2016/2017 ranking which featured 980 universities worldwide with the University of Ibadan is ranked 601. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/name/University%20of%20Ibadan/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only)
Despite being the only University which entered the list of top universities in the world, University of Ibadan came behind South African universities with University of Cape Town ranked 148 followed by Stellenbosch University (401), University of KwaZulu Natal (501).
University from Ghana Legon (601) is the only university from Ghana in the latest ranking and it is ranked ahead of Nigeria’s premier university.
Only 22 universities across Africa made it to the world class universities with South Africa and Egyptian universities dominating.
Reacting to the latest ranking, Vice Chancellor University of Ibadan, Professor Idowu Olayinka said the University is blessed with world class scholars who are dedicated to their calling and must be engaged by Nigeria to solve her problems.
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