...and NUC released one useless ranking.

We can actually think up ways to make things better for the upcoming generations. I've been thinking,,,, it'd take a few years.... Think and act rather than compare and bash

All I know is that my school is still far better than those of the last ranked

We are not about the improve come next year...... Sorry situation we have been in for a generation and no urgency to get out at sight!

Walelavender:

There's nothing embarrassing about this. The ranking was premised on the effect of the research of these Varsities on the Nigerian and global community. Don't tell me LAUTECH lecturers went to sleep at home during the protracted strike without contributing anything to the body of knowledge. It's Webomatric ranking. Let's wait for NUC(made in Nigeria) ranking before raising an eyebrow.

You really choose to believe an institution whose entire body collapsed for a duration of over two years, with its lecturers not being paid at all, and all laboratories completely shut down by its NASU arm could contribute more to the body of knowledge than may others who were in active operation all through those period?

C'mon man, would those lecturers fund researches even when they weren't on the Government's payroll and plan for years?

LAUTECH above unizik, Lasu, Unical and even Bowen goes to prove webometric isn't well informed.

Where is StatSocial?

writerights:

Lol. I understand.

@

Although a unilag alumnus, but I still feel that Unilorin should be ranked as the best in Nigeria.

A newer and more comprehensive form of ranking is needed

writerights:


You really choose to believe an institution whose entire body collapsed for a duration of over two years, with its lecturers not being paid at all, and all laboratories completely shut down by its NASU arm could contribute more to the body of knowledge than may others who were in active operation all through those period?

C'mon man, would those lecturers fund researches even when they weren't on the Government's payroll and plan for years?

I don't think he understands the seriousness of funding needed for research. Even with the trillions of dollars spent by the US NIH on research in US universities, the private sector also supports in various ways because the researchers feel that government funding isn't enough

darkelf:
Although a unilag alumnus, but I still feel that Unilorin should be ranked as the best in Nigeria.

A newer and more comprehensive form of ranking is needed

Exactly, I also feel unilorin deserves a better spot but the criteria of ranking doesn't cover that. I better way of ranking should be evaluated. Let's wait for 4icu ranking.

darkelf:


I don't think he understands the seriousness of funding needed for research. Even with the trillions of dollars spent by the US NIH on research in US universities, the private sector also supports in various ways because the researchers feel that government funding isn't enough

Sometimes, some choose to believe wrong things out of sentiment.

Glorified secondary school!

ALL of them!

Yet APC listed selling of JAMB forms as one of its achievements

Do you think we are going to be ranked high when the budget for cow colony is bigger than that of education?

writerights:


Exactly, I also feel unilorin deserves a better spot but the criteria of ranking doesn't cover that. I better way of ranking should be evaluated. Let's wait for 4icu ranking.

4icu.org is a useless non academic ranking. It ranks the popularity of websites and not their quality.

If our universities are to compete globally, here are my suggestions.

1. Privatise all federal and state Universities, then leave only 6 Federal Universities in all geopolitical zones to remain funded. These 6 government funded universities should include:
SW: University of Ibadan
SE: University of Nigeria, Nsukka
SS: University of Porthacourt
NE: University of Maiduguri
NW: Ahmadu Bello University
NC: University of Abuja
Entrance into these FG funded universities should be merit based with fees highly subsidised.

2. Open an accessible Student loan under the Ministry of Education to help fund students in the now inflated tuition rates in the newly privatised universities.

3. Primary and secondary schools should receive more funding. Which is where the foundation lies. Technical Education should be set up and funded to reduce the population seeking admission into university education.

4. Universities should focus on problem solving, high-brow R& which would attract funding from industry and alumni.

With these, our universities would be highly competitive, with a more stable academic calendar, and would attract an international community which also is an index of ranking by Times Higher Education.

This is just a thought, there could be better ways we can handle our falling standard of Education. But believe me, with the current trajectory of Education in Nigeria, it is the Privately owned universities that are competing favourably with universities around the would.

It is time we take Education away from the government.

writerights:


Exactly, I also feel unilorin deserves a better spot but the criteria of ranking doesn't cover that. I better way of ranking should be evaluated. Let's wait for 4icu ranking.

4icu is only based on website popularity. How frequent people visit institutions' website.
Times Higher Education is more detailed in ranking, they consider; Teacher - Student ratio, international community, research output amongst others. THE ranking is more holistic in it's ranking and they consider the programmes being offered by the institutions.

Fifthwave:


4icu is only based on website popularity. How frequent people visit institutions' website.
Times Higher Education is more detailed in ranking, they consider; Teacher - Student ratio, international community, research output amongst others. THE ranking is more holistic in it's ranking and they consider the programmes being offered by the institutions.

Has THE released her ranking this year?

writerights:


Has THE released her ranking this year?

Later this year and no jokes about 5 Nigerian Universities are going to be contesting for top 1000 universities.

TechEnthusiast:
Why do we always carry last?
Where is ATBU ranked?

36 on national ranking and 7277 on world ranking. Are you a balewite?

HigherEd:
Top 23 Nigerian Universities which made top 5000

Then, this list contain the best 23 Universities in Nigeria. I do not trust local rankings. How can a school up there rank No. 1 while educational Advancement is higher in the south?

Before you quote me, list the last 23 books you read and the bookshop you bought them.

HigherEd:
According to the January 2018 Edition of the Webometric Ranking, out of the over 25,000 higher Institutions in the World and 209 Higher instutions ranked in Nigeria only a handful of 23 Universities (representing 11%)in Nigeria made top 5,000 in the World.

The Top 23 Universities which were led by the University of Ibadan with a Global rank of 1099 followed in Second place by Covenant University, Ota with 2,142 Global rank and coming in Third place was Obafemi Awolowo University.

The Top 23 Universities were dominated by 19 Federal Universities, 3 state Universities and 2 private Universities.

Covenant University Ota remained the Only non - federal university in the top 10 ranking.

On the African Stage the University of Capetown remained number 1 with a 290 Global rank while University of Ibadan ranked 11th place while Covenant University came in at 34th.

Also worthy of note is that the Openness indicator of Webometrics rated the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in the latest edition of the ranking as the most cited University in Nigeria by Universities across the Globe.

In comparison to South Africa, Kenya and Ghana Nigeria Universities were poorly represented in the top 40 rankings in Africa.

The dismal performance of over 89% of Nigerian Universities who couldn't make top 5,000 could mostly be as a result of more emphasis in the Excellence indicator of the Webometric Ranking[b](which rates the top 10% highly cited researchers in 26 disciplines)[/b] which saw Excellence increase from 30-35% and a decrease of Presence from 10-5%.

Methodology of the Webometric Ranking
Webometrics uses link analysis for quality evaluation as it is a far more powerful tool than citation analysis or global surveys. In the first case, bibliometrics only counts formal recognition between peers, while links not only includes bibliographic citations but also third parties involvement with university activities. Surveys are not a suitable tool for World Rankings as there is not even a single individual with a deep (several semesters per institution), multi-institutional (several dozen), multidisciplinary (hard sciences, biomedicine, social sciences, technologies) experience in a representative sample (different continents) of universities worldwide.

Research output is also key topic for Webometrics, but including not only formal (e-journals, repositories) publications but also informal scholarly communication. Web publication is cheaper, maintaining the high standards of quality of peer review processes. It could also reach much larger potential audiences, offering access to scientific knowledge to researchers and institutions located in developing countries and also to third parties (economic, industrial, political or cultural stakeholders) in their local community.

Ranking Source: http://www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Nigeria?page=1

Blog Source:
https://educationexplorersite./2018/01/27/89-of-nigerian-universities-fail-to-make-top-5000-webometrics/

Lalasticlala Seun

Covenant University Ota remained the Only non - federal university in the top 10 ranking... haters aboard 3 Danfo buses heading toward 3rd mainland bridge

writerights:


Has THE released her ranking this year?

They have and for the first time in its history we have two UK universities top the list.

1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. California Institute of Technology, United States
4. Stanford University, United States
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
6. Harvard University, United States
7. Princeton University, United States
8. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
9. University of Chicago
10. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland.

And the interesting thing about this ranking is, they are ranked based on the following indices; Teaching, Research, Citations, Industry Income, International Outlook, No. of FTE (full time enrolled) Students, No. of students per staff, International Students, Female:Male Ratio.
And the range of programmes offered in each University is taken into consideration.

HigherEd:
The remaining 186 universities(89%) which failed to reach the top 5,000

As you can see most of the Nigerian Higher Institutions had 5777 score at the Excellence Indicator - which appears to be the worst score any University can get on that parameter. That would mean that much of the research output in those schools are of little use or relevance in Nigeria or the Global research Community

N.B: In Webometrics four indicators bigger numbers reflect low value hence the lesser the number on the four indicators the better.

browsing for LASU! Where did it go?

jerryunit48:
Many of the students dey nairaland with bad bad English

Should a university be responsible for teaching them "English"?
What did they do from kindergarten through Secondary school?

That ranking don't concern me but why university of Ibadan be the first in Nigeria. Ibadan sha

Fifthwave:


They have and for the first time in its history we have two UK universities top the list.

1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. California Institute of Technology, United States
4. Stanford University, United States
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
6. Harvard University, United States
7. Princeton University, United States
8. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
9. University of Chicago
10. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland.

And the interesting thing about this ranking is, they are ranked based on the following indices; Teaching, Research, Citations, Industry Income, International Outlook, No. of FTE (full time enrolled) Students, No. of students per staff, International Students, Female:Male Ratio.
And the range of programmes offered in each University is taken into consideration.

UK and US everywhere. Did Nigerian universities make it?

Affable0709:
See my school... just see.
I can't even mention it.

what's their method of ranking?
I want to 'up grade' my school...

who speaks bad English pass Japanese,Chinese,Germans and even most Englishmen?

writerights:


UK and US everywhere. Did Nigerian universities make it?

Only UI.

jerryunit48:
Many of the students dey nairaland with bad bad English

You talk true my Bros. So many of them can't differentiate "been" from "being", " I'm" from "am". Cry just de hungry me now.