Covenant University secures the highest position for Nigerian universities in the 2024 World Varsities Rankings. Discover the full list of top-performing institutions in Nigeria.
Covenant University (CU) has been ranked as Nigeria’s top university in the Times Higher Education (THE) 2024 Rankings.
The Times Higher Education World Rankings is an annual, comprehensive global assessment of universities.
The rankings for 2024 feature 1,907 universities from 108 countries and regions.
Covenant University, Nigeria’s top-ranked institution on the 2024 list, was placed within the global scale of 801-1000 alongside the University of Ibadan (UI).
The ratings were determined using 18 meticulously calibrated performance indicators, which evaluate an institution’s performance across five key areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry engagement, and international outlook.
This year’s ranking evaluated over 134 million citations from 16.5 million research publications and incorporated survey responses from 68,402 scholars worldwide.
“THE stated that they gathered a total of 411,789 data points from over 2,673 institutions that provided data.”
The University of Oxford maintains its top position for the eighth consecutive year, while other institutions in the top five have experienced changes. Stanford University ascends to second place, causing Harvard University to drop to fourth.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has risen two spots to secure third place this year. Meanwhile, the University of Cambridge has fallen to fifth position after sharing third place last year.
Top 10 ranked universities globally
- University of Oxford, UK
- Stanford University, US
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
- Harvard University, US
- University of Cambridge, UK
- Princeton University, US
- California Institute of Technology, US
- Imperial College London, UK
- University of California, Berkeley US
- Yale 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
- Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
- Lagos State University
- Nnamdi Azikiwe University
- Obafemi Awolowo University
- University of Port Harcourt
- Abia State University
- Akwa Ibom State University
- Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
- Babcock University
- Baze University
- Bells University of Technology
- Benson Idahosa University
- Delta State University, Abraka
- Edo State University, Uzairue
- Edwin Clarke University
- Elizade University
- Evangel University, Akaeze
- Federal University of Kashere
- Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun
- Federal University of Technology, Minna
- Federal University of Technology, Owerri
- Fountain University
- Landmark University
- Nasarawa State University, Keffi
- Niger Delta University
- Plateau State University, Bokkos
- Thomas Adewumi University
- Veritas University, Abuja
- Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano
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