World University Rankings 2015-16
Only one Nigerian university is ranked among the top 800 universities in the world, according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015/2016 released this week.
From the analysis of the report, it
showed that the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s oldest university, popular called Premier University is
ranked 601st of the world’s top 800 universities featured in the survey,
200 steps lower than Makerere University, Uganda, which is ranked
401st.
| Rank | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 601-800 | University of Ibadan
Nigeria
|
The best and only University in Nigeria is rank at top 800th is University of Ibadan popularly known as Premier University.
The below statistics show some of the criteria used for the ranking. The likes of teaching, international outlook, research, citations, industry income, student to staff ratio, male to female ratio and many more.
The California Institute of Technology of United States of America ranks 1st in the list of world ranking has the following features or be judged on these criteria. The University of Oxford, United Kingdom
is on the 2nd position, while Stanford University, United States and
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom are on the 3rd and 4th positions
respectively.
| Rank | Title |
Teaching
|
International Outlook
|
Research
|
Citations
|
Industry Income
|
Overall
| |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California Institute of Technology
United States of America
| 95.6 | 64.0 | 97.6 | 99.8 | 97.8 | 95.2 |
| Rank | Title |
No. of FTE Students
|
Student:Staff Ratio
|
International Students
|
Female:Male Ratio
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California Institute of Technology
United States of America
| 2,243 | 6.9 | 27% | 33 : 67 |
The University of Ibadan which is solely ranks among universities in Nigeria at expense of the likes of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, University of Nigeria Nsukka, University of Ilorin, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Lagos and many more, has the following features which fetched the 601th ranking in the world.
| Rank | Title |
No. of FTE Students
|
Student:Staff Ratio
|
International Students
|
Female:Male Ratio
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 601-800 | University of Ibadan
Nigeria
| 26,247 | 17.1 | 1% | 45 : 55 |
| Rank | Title |
Teaching
|
International Outlook
|
Research
|
Citations
|
Industry Income
|
Overall
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 601-800 | University of Ibadan
Nigeria
| 22.7 | 26.1 | 11.1 | 4.6 | 29.2 | - |
The ranking was released on Wednesday, September 30, 2015.
The University of Cape Town, South
Africa, at 120th position, is the highest ranked university in Africa,
481 steps higher than the University of Ibadan.
Five other South African universities
are included in the list of top notch universities in the world, making
it the highest from a single African country.
They are University of Witwatersrand
(20ist); Stellenbosch University (301st); University of KwaZulu-Natal
(401st); University of Pretoria (501st); and University of South Africa
(601st).
Three Egyptian universities, Alexandria
University, Cairo University, and Suez Canal University are all ranked
601st on the list.
Just like Nigeria and Uganda, only one Ghanaian university, the University of Ghana is on the list, and it is ranked 601st.
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.
But despite having only one university
in the ranking, this year’s rating is a great leap for Nigeria. No
Nigerian university has featured in the ranking since 2011 when the
survey began.
Top Ten World’s University for 2015/2016 TOP 50 LIST OF UNIVERSITIES
Find full ranking here.
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