Covenant University (CU), a prominent private and Christian themed institution, has been ranked Nigeria’s top university in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings.
Published annually, THE Rankings evaluate universities on a global scale, with the 2024 edition covering 1,907 institutions from 108 countries and regions.
Rankings are based on 18 criteria that assess teaching, research environment, research quality, industry collaboration, and international outlook.
The 2024 ranking analyzed data from over 134 million citations on 16.5 million research publications and included responses from 68,402 academics worldwide. THE collected 411,789 data points from over 2,673 universities for this analysis.
On the global stage, the UK’s University of Oxford maintained its top spot for the ninth consecutive year, making it the longest-standing leader in THE’s history, surpassing Harvard University’s eight-year record, which ended in 2011.
Stanford University moved up to second place, while Harvard dropped to fourth. The University of Cambridge also shifted to fifth after holding a joint third position in 2023.
THE’s Rankings of Top 10 Nigerian Universities (2024:
1. Covenant University
2. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
3. Landmark University
4. University of Ibadan
5. University of Lagos
6. Bayero University, Kano
7. Federal University of Technology, Akure
8. Federal University of Technology, Minna
9. University of Benin
10. University of Ilorin
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