eGuerrilla:

1,701 hits for Covenant University
15,600 hit for UniLag

It gets really interesting when you drill down on the papers published by students at Covenant

Koikoi:

Poster must've dropped out of lag and made 1st class in convenant. Don't worry life's a long journey

hariorh:

u guys are jobless, especially the owner of this thread. so as a student or after concluding ur university, d best u can come up with is to compare ur school to dat of the public institutions? thats just lame and u are not doing ur school or private universities any good at all. instead of u guys to use the knowledge acquired in ur various schools to try and change the situation of things in ur country, u are busy idling and arguing on a moronic level of which school is best when none of our schools is even ranked average in the world. shame on y'all. A BUNCH OF DISAPPOINTMENTS!

ayandee:

@poster 'omo baba oni gas'. You've started again. When will you stop brooding over your inability to secure admission into a first generation school? You can top up your degree in any of the ivy league schools if your parents are as rich as you claim. Yeyenotu

sheyguy:

Most of the comments here by the Unilag supporters are nothing but daft.
Firstly, most of these daft-comment posters av no understanding of the topic of discussion. When the OP asked the question: Is Unilag Any Better Than Covenant University? , He was simply challenging the previous insinuation made by Unilag students and other public school students that Covenant has low standard because they graduated 85 first class in a particular year. For those 'public-school-is-better-than-private-school' grads who can't understand the OP's question, the OP is simply saying, now that unilag and most top rated public schools av started churning out first class in like manner that made covenant a glorified secondary school, is unilag still better than Covenant?
Secondly, the world webometric ranking of unis does not prove nada. It is just a ranking of schools through their sites and traffic related to those sites. If for example unilag can support most of their transactions with their students via their website and as a result get more hits and search, then the webometric ranking system rates them higher for that alone and not the quality of their grads. We all know such a system favours school with large population of students. How then does one compare OSU in Ogun state, where there diploma student population alone can rival the entire population of most schools, to a school like Covenant?

From my own rough estimate, going by the opinion of neutral partier like employers, training centres, NYSC officials, external examiners (mostly from public schools like unilag), and overseas report of post graduate students, Covenant is not inferior to any single school in Nigeria. As for which school produces the better grad and is better between Covenant and UniLag? i will leave that to neutral parties that come in contact with both set of grads to determine.

mbhs139:

I don't see any reason for this comparison. I think we should rather be ashamed of ourselves, wether public or private school graduates, that none of our so called ivory towers was amongst the top 1800 in the world ranking, that's one.

secondly, it is also a shame if after four, five years in the university the world bank is now training our graduates on employability skills, because a study's findings showed that Nigerian graduates are not employable.

fellow Nigerians, it is not a matter of how many first class, but what is the worth of the first class. I made a third class from the university of Lagos in maths/statistics, right now I'm on contract teaching statistics with spss at the Nigerian army school of finance. i did not know anyone there before you'll say it was arranged. besides, i was not engaged based on my degree but because of the other trainings i have gone through. my class includes a capt, three PhD and others. there are some of my colleagues with 2.1 that are still looking for work while i run my own thing.

I'm not saying we should not eulogise those with first class, but the number of first class grad a school churn out every year may not be the parameter for measuring the quality of a school. the wole soyinkas, gani fawehinmi and kiyamos of this world didn't make first class, but their impact can be felt.