NEWS UPDATE - Just one Nigerian university listed in world Top 800 universities

London-based Times Higher Education (THE) published its 12th annual ... While many African Universities made the list, University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s oldest university, is ranked 601st for the first time. No Nigerian university has featured in the ranking since 2011 when the survey began.  South African universities are leading the African continent with six universities ranked. Just like Nigeria and Uganda, only one Ghanaian university, the University of Ghana is on the list, and it is ranked 601st.   South African universities,

 
The University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, Stellenbosch University, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa (Unisa).   Morocco too has only one university, University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad (601th), on the list.  Altogether, 13 universities from six African countries are included among the top 800 universities in the world. hree Egyptian universities, Alexandria University, Cairo University, and Suez Canal University are all ranked 601st on the list.  Previously, the list only included 400 universities from 41 countries. This year’s ranking is “four times bigger than the top 200 list we published between 2004 and 2010,” the World University Ranking editor Phil Baty said.  “The research behind the rankings is the most comprehensive and international ever, revealing a host of new entrants among universities, countries and whole regions,” he said.  Baty said: “It is good news for South Africa to have once again made this prestigious list of the world’s top universities. It is now among one of 70 countries in the elite four per cent of universities in the world – something it can be very proud of achieving again this year”.  Some of the countries whose universities make an appearance on the ranked list for the first time include Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.  Baty said the rankings “apply rigorous standards, using tough global benchmarks across all of a global research university’s key missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook”.  He said as a result, universities would be able to use the ranking as a benchmark measure.   The expanded list, said Bay, is a “testament to just how competitive global higher education has become – our top 800 universities come from 70 different countries, and the traditional dominance of the US is eroding”. 

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