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Only one Nigerian university has made it to the list of top
10 African universities, a rating that has six South African schools.
In a ranking released
Tuesday, Nigeria’s University of Ibadan came a distant eighth on the top 10
list, beaten by schools from South Africa, Kenya and Egypt.
With its performance, the
University of Ibadan naturally came tops as Nigeria’s best, according to the
research conducted by Journals Consortium.
The result shows how the
Nigerian education system struggles against its African peers.
The ranking was based on
research publications and citations from 2010 to 2014 as well as visibility on
the Internet, Journals Consortium said.
The University of Cape
Town in South Africa was graded the continent’s best while Cairo University in
Egypt came second.
Another South African
institution, University of Pretoria, ranked third while the University of
Nairobi, in Kenya, ranked fourth.
University of South
Africa was ranked fifth leaving Witwatersrand University at the sixth position
and Stellenbosch at seventh.
The University of
Nigeria, Nsukka, came 13th in Africa – apparently Nigeria’s second best.
While the University of
Ibadan started off as University College in 1948, the University of Nigeria was
founded in 1955 and was formally opened in 1960.
Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, ABU, ranked 18th in Africa and third in Nigeria, while the University of
Lagos ranked 20th in Africa, and fourth in Nigeria.
Obafemi Awolowo
University, OAU, ranked 24th in Africa, and fifth in Nigeria while University
of Benin ranked 27th in Africa and sixth in Nigeria.
University of Ilorin was
rated seventh best in Nigeria but 31st in Africa while the University of Port
Harcourt ranked eighth in Nigeria, and 36th in Africa.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
stood at ninth position in Nigeria, and 42nd in Africa, leaving the University
of Calabar as 10th in Nigeria but 43rd in Africa respectively.
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