Covenant University (CU) has been listed as Nigeria‘s overall best university in Times Higher Education (THE) 2024 Rankings.The Times Higher Education World Rankings is a comprehensive global ranking of universities published annually.The 2024 rankings include 1,907 universities across 108 countries and regions.Covenant University which is Nigeria’s highest-ranking institution on the 2024 list fell within the 8001-1000 global scale alongside the University of Ibadan (UI).The ratings were done based on 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.This year’s ranking analysed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally.“Overall, we collected 411,789 datapoints from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data,” THE said.The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the eighth year in a row, but others in the top five have seen shifts in their ranks. Stanford University moves up to second place, pushing Harvard University down to fourth.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) climbs up two places to third this year. The University of Cambridge slips to fifth place, after being in joint third place last year.Top 10 ranked universities globallyUniversity of Oxford, UKStanford University, USMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USHarvard University, USUniversity of Cambridge, UKPrinceton University, USCalifornia Institute of Technology, USImperial College London, UKUniversity of California, Berkeley USYale University, USTop 10 ranked Nigerian universitiesCovenant UniversityUniversity of IbadanFederal University of Technology AkureUniversity of LagosBayero UniversityUniversity of IlorinUniversity of Nigeria, NsukkaAfe Babalola UniversityUniversity of BeninFederal University ofAgriculture, AbeokutaLadoke Akintola University of TechnologyLagos State UniversityNnamdi Azikiwe UniversityObafemi Awolowo UniversityUniversity of Port HarcourtAbia State UniversityAkwa Ibom State UniversityAlex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-AlikeBabcock UniversityBaze UniversityBells University of TechnologyBenson Idahosa UniversityDelta State University, AbrakaEdo State University, UzairueEdwin Clarke UniversityElizade UniversityEvangel University, AkaezeFederal University of KashereFederal University of Petroleum Resources, EffurunFederal University of Technology, MinnaFederal University of Technology, OwerriFountain UniversityLandmark UniversityNasarawa State University, KeffiNiger Delta UniversityPlateau State University, BokkosThomas Adewumi UniversityVeritas University, AbujaYusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano
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