The University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University and the University of Lagos are missing from the list of the 30 best universities in Africa for 2015 in a rating released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The University of Port Harcourt was named as the sixth best university in Africa, trailing four South African and one Ugandan university. The list, which was dominated by South Africa and Egypt, saw the southern Africa country amass 12 positions on the ranking, with the north African country trailing with half a dozen schools. Morocco had three universities. Tunisia came up with another three, while Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria had a single university in the 2015 ranking. According to WEF , “these results are essentially based on the amount of citations there are for the university’s work”. Quoting Times Higher Education (THE), WEF said the universities are “derived from the methodology for the current world university ranking, using the 13 factors (below), combining THE’s own enormous database of statistics along with the Elsevier’s Scopus database – a system that highlights some of the continent’s top performers in terms of how often research papers are referred to and cited by other academics globally”. “This methodology is designed for the research- led globally facing university. Times Higher Education emphasised that not everyone in Africa will find the metrics appropriate to their mission or their strategic priorities making this ranking a starting point of a longer, inclusive conversation involving African institutions.” FULL LIST OF TOP 30 UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA (2015): Rank Name Country All publications (2009-13) Citation Score 1 University of Cape Town South Africa 5540.21 99.90 2 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 4387.17 99.76 3 Makerere University Uganda 1112.69 99.72 4 Stellenbosch University South Africa 4357.33 95.48 5 University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa 4235.09 89.41 6 University of Port Harcourt Nigeria 573.55 88.92 7 University of the Western Cape South Africa 1154.77 84.61 8 University of Nairobi Kenya 671.72 84.60 9 University of Johannesburg South Africa 2192.74 83.64 10 University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad Morocco 910.82 78.61 11 University of Pretoria South Africa 4544.33 75.89 12 University of Ghana Ghana 804.53 73.31 13 University of South Africa South Africa 981.67 72.51 14 Suez Canal University Egypt 998.98 69.69 15 University of Hassan II Casablanca Morocco 960.25 69.03 16 Addis Ababa University Ethiopia 893.90 64.84 17 Rhodes University South Africa 1296.96 64.54 18 University of the Free State South Africa 1512.56 62.83 19 North-West University South Africa 1707.94 60.75 20 University of Tunis Tunisia 879.63 57.26 21 Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax Tunisia 822.31 57.24 22 Université Mohammed V – Agdal Morocco 1503.69 56.85 23 American University in Cairo Egypt 700.89 56.40 24 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa 885.77 53.29 25 South Valley University Egypt 636.85 52.49 26 Alexandria University Egypt 2550.15 52.24 27 Assiut University Egypt 1588.64 50.41 28 University of Sfax Tunisia 2355.30 49.79 29 University of Yaounde I Cameroon 876.33 49.72 30 Minia University Egypt 694.79 48.36 source: www.thecable.ng

And what's was their criteria used in judgement



Uniport no reach abeg, I schl der, overratedoverrated

WEF seems just coming up....a newbie in the system I suppose else they wouldn't have rated the uniport over the great ife, UI and the major class, the unilag.
I don't want to know what the criteria for the research was, all i see here is flaws everywhere.

WEF seems just coming up....a newbie in the system I suppose else they wouldn't have rated the uniport over the great ife, UI and the major class, the unilag.
I don't want to know what the criteria for the research was, all i see here is flaw everywhere.

Believe it or not,that's beyond anyone's concern.Mind u,WEF is not a newbie,perhaps you've not been reading educational articles. Remember few months ago THE ranked same uniport 6th in africa perhaps THE is also a newbie.We should understand that this ranking is based on citations and number of research papers. We don't even knw the quality of human resources in that skul...I mean they have high class professors including former vc's from the so called gr8 unis in nigeria. I don't knw why we are just commiting fallacy of "ignorantio elenchi"(missing the point) cos the premises for our argument doesn't logically imply our conclusion.I may nt be a student of uniport,bt I knw the school am talking abt.IS nt abt the structures & big names which I think is the reason 4 all these baseless arguments."a babe graduated with 2:1 & can't speak" so? this is wht the nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes as "the danger of a single story",you simply commiting fallacy of converse accident(hasty generalization).

PHAYOL81:
WEF seems just coming up....a newbie in the system I suppose else they wouldn't have rated the uniport over the great ife, UI and the major class, the unilag.
I don't want to know what the criteria for the research was, all i see here is flaw everywhere.

Believe it or not,that's beyond anyone's concern.Mind u,WEF is not a newbie,perhaps you've not been reading educational articles. Remember few months ago THE ranked same uniport 6th in africa perhaps THE is also a newbie.We should understand that this ranking is based on citations and number of research papers. We don't even knw the quality of human resources in that skul...I mean they have high class professors including former vc's from the so called gr8 unis in nigeria. I don't knw why we are just commiting fallacy of "ignorantio elenchi"(missing the point) cos the premises for our argument doesn't logically imply our conclusion.I may nt be a student of uniport,bt I knw the school am talking abt.IS nt abt the structures & big names which I think is the reason 4 all these baseless arguments."a babe graduated with 2:1 & can't speak" so? this is wht the nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes as "the danger of a single story",you simply commiting fallacy of converse accident(hasty generalization).

People are arguing abt uniport producing "a babe" that can't speak English,same uniport produced the likes of Yul Edochie,Agbani Darego(one time miss world),Clem Ohameze,Monalisa Chinda,Rita dominic,Goodluck and a host of others.believe me you aren't in any way more competent than the aforementioned persons in the use of language.Our country is still in the doldrums today cos of these sentiments and single stories creating stereotype.we shld be hppy and stop"behaving like educated illiterates".People dat don't even knw the number of research papers each of these unis present each year are just saying wht they don't knw cos of structures & big names.

I disagree

some comments are just plain silly. SMH