Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; University of Ibadan (UI), Ibadan; Ladoke Akintola University, (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, and eight other Nigerian universities have made the list of top 100 universities and colleges in Africa for 2010. According to the latest ranking of the African tertiary institutions by the International Colleges and Universities, Rome, Italy. Out of 104 approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC), that made the list,
OAU is number 25, leading the Nigerian universities on the list. With the university of Lagos in a distant 51 position.