The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) has released its 2023 university rankings and four Nigerian universities made the list, but they fell out of the top 1000.
According to the CWUR, the University of Ibadan (UI), the University of Nigeria (UNN), the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) are the top-ranked universities in Nigeria.
While UI is 1163 on the world universities ranking, UNN is 1784, UNILAG is 1875 and ABU is 1881. South Africa’s University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand are the top universities in Africa at 267 and 290 respectively.
The CWUR publishes academic ranking of global universities by assessing the quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty and research performance without relying on surveys and university data submissions.
The CWUR analysed over 20,000 universities and used numerous parameters to rate these universities, arriving at a 2000 longlist. These parameters were summed as education rank, employability rank, faculty rank and research rank. Harvard University, rated number one across all ranks, is the best university on the CWUR 2023 list with a perfect 100 score.
The CWUR judgement was based on “the academic success of a university’s alumni, and measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won prestigious academic distinctions relative to the university’s size (25%)… the professional success of a university’s alumni, and measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held top positions at major companies relative to the university’s size (25%)… the number of faculty members who have won prestigious academic distinctions (10%)”.
Research accounted for the remaining 40% in CWUR’s judgement. The CWUR measured the total number of research papers (10%), research papers appearing in top-tier journals and highly-influential journals (20%) and the number of highly-cited research papers (10%).
Most Nigerian universities were closed as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on an eight-month strike in 2022.
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