The university of lagos has emerged the 'first' and the best in the global webometric ranking in Nigeria



The july 2012 webometric rankings released on the 16th of july 2012 by the web-based world ranking of universities (webometric) at http://4icu.org places university of lagos in the 1st position in Nigeria and 16th position in Africa



The positions of some other nigeria universities on the july 2012 ranking table are as follows:

University of lagos- 1st in nigeria , 16th in Africa

Universtiy of Ilorin- 2nd in Nigeria, 31st in Africa.


University of Ibadan- 3rd in Nigeria, 40th in Africa.


Obafemi Awolowo university- 4th in Nigeria, 42nd in Africa.


University of benin- 5th in Nigeria, 45th in Africa.




As shown in the ranking, the university of lagos is the first university in Nigeria to be ranked amongst the 20 best universities in Africa.




Webometric ranking is a measure of an institution pressure on the web. It is computed using a number of parameters then revolve round the quantum and quality of electronic resources on a web site as well as access to such resources.