http://allafrica.com/stories/200705160728.html

http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=africa


Country Varsities Out of World Ranking

Daily Champion (Lagos)
NEWS
16 May 2007
Posted to the web 16 May 2007

By Erasmus Alaneme
Abuja

AFRICAN universities were again at the receiving end as the World Universities Webometric ranking released yesterday showed that only University of Cape Town, South Africa was listed among the first 500 best universities worldwide.

Also, on the continent's ranking, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife came a distance 44th position on the list of the first 100 best universities in Africa.

These declarations emerged even as the National Universities Commission (NUC) yesterday insisted that programmes offered by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) have not been accredited.

Daily Champion gathered that of the 500 universities listed, United States of America and Canada accounted for 238, while Europe, Oceania, Asia and Latin America got 211, 21, 20 and nine universities in that order.

Although only Univeristy of Cape Town made the 500 list, it however did not rank among the first 200 universities in the world.

According to the NUC only four Nigerian universities OAU ranked 44th followed by the University of Ibadan (UI) on the 65th position, University of Benin (UNIBEN) 79th position and the University of Lagos on the 90th slot made it among the first 100 universities in Africa.

Declaring that the country's rating has further dipped this year, the NUC noted that in 2006, five Nigerian universities UI, OAU, UNIBEN, University of Lagos (UNILAG) and University of Jos, (UNIJOS) ranked among the first 100 universities in Africa.

However, proffering reason for the poor outing, the NUC attributed it to the fact that previous research findings by academic in the nation's universities were not respected.

Meanwhile, the NUC through its executive secretary, Prof Julius Okojie yesterday reiterated that the programmes offered by NOUN were not accredited.

Prof Okojie who spoke during the meeting with the University management said on the status of the institution that "it was a statement of fact that NOUN's programmes had not been visited/accredited by NUC".

The NUC in its weekly bulletin released on Monday noted that to receive approval or recognition of the establishment of programmes or institutions was quire different from programme accreditation.

According to him, programmes could only be visited for accreditation when they have mature which in the case of NOUN and other distance learning programmes will be after three years, promising to send accreditation team to assess the programmes of NOUN at the appropriate time.

What about the various private universities? Were they not included in the rankings?

YES, private universities did not measure up.

@SEUN,
WE TALKING ABOUT GIANTS UNIVERSTIES AND NOT GLORIFIED SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
THE RANKINGS GOES TO SHOW HOW LOW,EDUCATION HAS GONE IN NGR.IS A PITY,NEVERTHELES,THUMPS UP TO IFE(OAU) FOR MAINTAINING ITS LEAD TERTIARY EDU SECTOR.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/print.php?a=13283

http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/openProgrammes/rankings.html


Lago Business School Attains World Ranking

The Lagos Business School ranking is Good 4 Nigeria,I hear there was no Asian,German or other major region universities in the list.thats kool

not good enough, they were included in the 'open programme' section. South africa had more than two in the custom programmes

GREATEST IFE this is to congratulate all IFE student but we still have to change oyr VC to make us happy.I wonder how faborode will fell but it is we d student that make dathappenthis is our school athem
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For learning and Culture Sport and struggle
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Are they saying that OAU,UNILAG and UNIBEN are all better than UNN? What a farce

Its hard to compare the quality of stuents across the country but the Nigerian Law School offers such an opportunity,at least for law students.It is a school that admits law graduates from across the country

Consistently,UNN students have been the best on average,every single year without exception.Sometimes we have produced as much as one-third the 2 1 barristers in the Law School(remember there are more than 40 Unis in Naija)

UNIBEN?You are having a laugh

That is the Truth! South-Africa Universities are better off

I-man

This is not the first time UNN did not make in the top five in Naija. The ranking was based on overall programme not on law. By the way this was not done by Nigerians to be called a farce.

what r u saying - olodo.

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I-man

This is not the first time UNN did not make in the top five in Naija. The ranking was based on overall programme not on law. By the way this was not done by Nigerians to be called a farce.

Ranking Universities in Nigeria is a farce.Ranking Universities in any part of the world is an imprecise science anywhere in the world,moreso Nigeria.

The fact that UNN does not make other lists is hardly news to UNN students.In the law sector I alluded to,we were denied accreditation for the Law Faculty despite the fact that our Law students were consistently coming out tops.Some Northern Universities actually have a higher admissions quota for the Law School than UNN.

My point is,if UNN is as bad its made out,how come in the one field we can get to compare students-law-UNN does far better than the rest?Are u saying the Law Faculty is just an exception?I dare say if we had a Nigerian Medical School or a Nigerian Engineering School,we will have the same result

na so

Greatest Ife! This is our turn to shine, poor ranking for Nigeria universities though. We can still do better.