No Nigerian university is in the first 700 higher institutions of learning in the world and the first 18 in Africa, according to the QS World University Rankings 2015/16.

However, South Africa has nine institutions while Egypt has five. Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have one institution each.

“This is the 12th edition of QS’s annual ranking of the world’s top universities, which uses six performance indicators to assess institutions’ global reputation, research impact, staffing levels and international complexion,” the report said.

In Africa, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is ranked first on the continent and 171st in the world. The Stellenbosch University, South Africa, is rated second in Africa and 302nd in the world. The University of the Witwatersrand is the third on the continent and 331st globally.

On the global scale, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, scored 100 per cent to retain its top spot in the QS rankings for the fourth year consecutively. Harvard University (US) climbed two places to rank second, followed by the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and Stanford University (US) in joint third. MIT came first in the 2012 global rating – a position which Harvard and Cambridge universities had once occupied – and has remained there ever since.

“The primary aim of the QS World University Rankings is to help students make informed comparisons of leading universities around the world,” stated the report. “Based on six performance indicators, the rankings are designed to assess universities in four areas: research, teaching, employability and internationalisation. Each of the six indicators carries a different weighting when calculating the overall scores (see below). Four of the indicators are based on ‘hard’ data, and the remaining two are based on major global surveys – one of academics and another of employers – each the largest of their kind.”

The reports said the universities were placed on 40 per cent scale of academic reputation; employer reputation, 10 per cent; student-to-faculty ratio, 20 per cent; citations per faculty, 20 per cent; international faculty ratio, five per cent; and international student ratio, five per cent.

A total of 82 countries are represented in the QS World University Rankings this year, with the largest shares claimed by the US (154), UK (71), Germany (43) and France (41). Japan has 38 entries; Australia, 33; China, 30; Canada and Italy, 26 apiece; Brazil, 22; and Russia 21. After the US, UK, Switzerland and Singapore, the highest entry is claimed by Australia, with the Australian National University in joint 19th. France makes its first appearance with the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris) in 23rd place, followed by Canada’s McGill University in 24th. China’s top entrant, Tsinghua University, climbs 22 places to rank 25th while the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology gains 12 positions to reach 28th.

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It's not like we don't have the Human Potentials, We just have been unfortunate to be governed by stupid Military dictators.

Explain to me how come we have Harvard type Professors and graduates making us proud in the US and Uk but in Nigeria the story is different.

orgeneme!!!

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try next time... Naija Univ

Not surprised
Check my signature first

What were you expecting?

GodWin
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And some loud mouths will come here and be shouting greatest Akokites/Great IFE! It's actually soothing to realise that LAUTECH and these overrated schools are all categorized under the 'no category' position for this ranking.

LADOKITES BE BLAZING THE TRAIL SINCE 1990!

Uche which school u say u go again

This is not supposed to be a news nah. If you are told that Nigeria made top 1000 sef, will you believe it?

Here is a fact you should know about many Nigerian Universities:

Students still sit on the floor of the lecture theatre to attend lectures.

even 1000.. buh check my SIGNATURE to knw what my products ranks in the world

Stop being over ambitious

Talk of first 1000

Still won't put food on my table so no Bleep given

Nigerian schools..

After all the over hyping of some private universities and federal universities. I'm not surprised sha. Some universities are worse than community development schools

Lol
We no get university na
Na secondary school pro we get

Seriously


Am not surprised. Education is the least of our problems right now


Insurgency is order of the day

University of uyo should be among.... Bias rating...

good news. want about ABU

..but 9ja dey among the best 1000,we dey try na

Because funding them is too hard.

ASUU has been going on strike countless times to draw attention to poor university funding.....but it always ends up being about salaries, and less about money for new facilities.

Now we are in a situation where it is even harder to fund universities. Additionally, we do not have enough lecturers, and we have a very poor secondary school system......with low standards, and so on......and the same funding and teacher issues as the universities.

Want to make things better? We need to spend more money equipping our universities and employing fresh lecturers. And the only way to do it....now that oil prices have fallen....is by increasing fees.

We also need to make entrance into universities tougher. No more JAMB/NECO/WAEC......back to the bad old A levels.

Yet we are paying thousands of naira to be educated

where are the "if no unilorin ,uniben,unilag then the list is not complete "

CARLOSZ:


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who cares! That does not stop Nigeria from being one of the most fortunate, blessed country in the world with resources and opportunities for business growth which explains why are multinationals come to Nigeria

Do we have higher institutions of LEARNING in Nigeria?

We shouldnt even make the best 7,000

With the kind of facilities we Have in our Universities.

Our Leaders have their Children in the best Universities in Europe and other First World Nations. Nigerian Universities are for the less previledged excluding the Private ones.

We have a long way to go in the Educational sector to compete with Universities in other parts of the world.

we will start making the list when our politicians stop sending their children abroad to school ..