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 globally
1.University of Oxford, UK
2.Stanford University,US.
3.Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.
4.Harvard University, US
5University of Cambridge, UK
6Princeton University, US
7California Institute of Technology, US
8.Imperial College London, UK
9University of California, Berkeley US
10Yale University, US
Top 10 ranked Nigerian universities
Covenant University
University of Ibadan
Federal University of Technology Akure
University of Lagos
Bayero University
University of Ilorin
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Afe Babalola University
University of Benin
Federal University ofAgriculture, Abeokuta
