The January 2012 report of Webometrics, a world tertiary education ranking institutions organisation, has shown that only three institutions in Nigeria made the list of first 100 best universities in Africa and none in the first 1,600 in the world.

The University of Benin ranked 1,639th on the global scale, the 18th in Africa and the first in Nigeria, followed by the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State as the second in Nigeria and the 2,266th in the world. It however did not show on the first 100 list in Africa.

The University of Ibadan, the third in the African first 100, was the 2,515th in the world and 53rd in Africa, while the University of Nigeria, Nsukka is 3,228th, Obafemi Awolowo University-3,263rd and the University of Lagos- 3,486th, were the fourth fifth and sixth, respectively, in Nigeria.

Others were the Ahmadu Bello University, University of Ilorin-4,302nd, University of Jos 5,681st, Auchi Polytechnic- 254th and the National Open University of Nigeria- 6,576th, which came seventh, eighth, nineth, 10th and 11th, respectively on the African list.

The Auchi Polytechnic, being the 24th in Africa retained its position as the best polytechnic in Nigeria.

Topping the world list were the Havard University, which maintained its first position followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley that came second, third, fourth and fifth respectively.

The University of Cape Town dropped to second position in Africa.

The report showed a significant drop in the quality of Nigeria’s tertiary education compared to the previous rankings.

For instance, in the 2011 report, eight institutions in Nigeria made the African best 100 list. They included University of Ilorin (20th), University of Jos (42nd), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (54th), University of Lagos (58th), Obafemi Awolowo University (63rd), Ahmadu Bello University (69th), National Open University of Nigeria (86th) and the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (95th).

The first five in Africa were the Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius (387th in the world), University of Cape Town, South Africa (532th), Rhodes University, South Africa (573rd), Cairo University, Egypt (687th) and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (819th).

In a related development, a report from 24/7 Wall St has listed the United States, Japan, Canada, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, South Korea, New Zealand, Israel and Australia as countries with the most educated people.

According to the journal, the countries that invest the most in education have the most educated people.

http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerian-varsities-fail-to-make-top-1600/

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.All indices are pointers to Nigeria's failed education sector

electricity we can produce after 51 years then how we want make ham?

na wa o

Nigeria.

forwards never, backwards ever

NL shld stop bring silly threads like this to the front page, this ranking is based on web traffic associated with the school. That does not prove anything.

How dem go make am wen many VERY corrupt and protest-happy so-called professors make up the system, mtcheew

Well, What were you expecting? With the almost zero funding and poor state of *everything*. . .

Blame the Government?

@Sheyguy

Mehhnn this means the ranking kinda favors Nigerian Unis o The ones I saw that was based on more important criteria was far worse. While US schools like MIT( ) and Harvard topped the list, our Naija Unis dey far FAr FAR behind, even below 5000th (as of the last time I saw it).

i taught uniben had his sch of medicine disacredited ,how come they rated the school as the best in the country ? Auchi poly rated above all state and some fed unis is disgusting.

It is not a rocket science that the quality of Nigeria education is getting worse every year.

Who are these 'rankers'?! R we sure this is not a delibrate attempt to degrade an already degrade Africa?

You just cannot eat your cake and want to have it at the same time. Nigeria is reaping what she sow simple. I am not sure anyone will be surprise at this.

Who are these 'rankers'?! R we sure this is not a delibrate attempt to degrade Africa?

this is stale old news. Do u expect nigerian univ to rank among the world top 1000 when our country's economy has not ranked beter? Our schools are a product of our economy!
Nigerian univs produce graduate that can work efectively in the nigerian society, they shuld go to hell with their stats! They cant compete wit havard and mit b'cos our country cant compete wit theirs! A havard graduate wil find it hard to work in nigeria *okonjo* while a uniben graduate wil do just fine *fashiola*
the civil service, banks, telecoms, force, aviation, schools etc are filled with workers mostly from ngr univ, and they're doing just fine *at least*

Webometrics: A directory of world universities ranked[b] according their presence on the Web[/b].
Not according to the quality of education

Just like it is commonly done in Nigeria.We are not being fair to ourselves as a Nation if we continue misleading with publications like this; the ranking has got little or nothing to do with quality of education.
We are always quick to condemn the government but we do nothing to condemn acts like this that sends wrong message to our psyche.

1 University of Cape Town
2 Stellenbosch University
3 University of the Witwatersrand
4 University of Pretoria
5 Rhodes University
6 University of South Africa
7 Cairo University
8 University of Kwazulu Natal
9 University of the Western Cape
10 American University in Cairo
11 Ain Shams University
12 Makerere University
13 University of Khartoum
14 University of Johannesburg
15 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
16 Addis Ababa University
17 University of Nairobi
18 Mansoura University
19 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
20 University of the Free State (1)
21 Polytechnic of Namibia
22 University of Benin (1)
23 North West University
24 Zagazig University
25 University of Ghana
26 Université Mentouri de Constantine
27 Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
28 University of Dar Es Salaam
29 Al-Azhar University
30 University of Botswana
31 Assiut University
32 Helwan University
33 University of Zimbabwe
34 Cape Peninsula University of Technology
35 University of Agriculture Abeokuta
36 Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene
37 Université Cadi Ayyad
38 University of Ibadan
39 Sudan University of Science & Technology
40 University of Tanta
41 Tshwane University of Technology
42 Université Badji Mokhtar de Annaba
43 Strathmore University Nairobi
44 South Valley University
45 Kenyatta University
46 Mauritius Institute of Education
47 University of Nigeria
48 Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport
49 Obafemi Awolowo University
50 Egerton University
51 Suez Canal University
52 University of Lagos
53 Université Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen
54 Université Ferhat Abbas Setif
55 Ahmadu Bello University
56 University of Mauritius
57 University of Fort Hare
58 University of Namibia
59 Al Akhawayn University Ifrane
60 Université Mohammed V Agdal
61 Alexandria University
62 Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
63 University of Ilorin
64 University of Malawi
65 Université Djillali Liabes
66 Minia University
67 Université d'Oran
68 National University of Rwanda
69 École Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs
70 Open University of Sudan
71 University of Zululand
72 Université Abdelmalek Essaadi
73 University of Education Winneba
74 Durban University of Technology
75 African Virtual University
76 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
77 Presbyterian University College
78 Al Azhar Al-Sharif Islamic Research Academy
79 Université d'Antananarivo
80 Mogadishu University
81 Faculté des Sciences Rabat
82 Université Hassiba Ben Bouali
83 Jimma University
84 University of Limpopo
85 École National Supérieure de l'Informatique (ex-INI)
86 Université de Batna 5,
87 Groupe EIER-ETSHER
88 University of Jos
89 Université Senghor d'Alexandrie
90 German University in Cairo
91 Université Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi Ouzou
92 Kafrelsheikh University
93 Université Hassan II Ain-Chock
94 Benha University
95 Auchi Polytechnic
96 Hubert Kairuki Memorial University
97 Wisconsin International University College Ghana
98 Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde
99 Fayoum University
100 National Open University of Nigeria

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

why are people still surprised that our quality of education is rubbish, our education system only destroy the life of our youths make them job seekers rather than employers, professors in universities are supposed to be discovering new knowledge to students not repeating existing knowledge e.g what is being lectured 10 yrs ago in our universities is still what is obtainable 2day, nobody is blaming GEJ cus i know his loyalists are beginning to think otherwise, the military guys brought nija to where it is 2day, the contents of our education system is outdated, our regular Msc, Bsc, Hnd etc are outdated everyone must go out to discover new and relevant knowledge for his/herself.

Just like it is commonly done in Nigeria.We are not being fair to ourselves as a Nation if we continue misleading with publications like this; the ranking has got little or nothing to do with quality of education.
We are always quick to condemn the government but we do nothing to condemn acts like this that sends wrong message to our psyche.


is it not true?? i went to a university and will tell you that its demoralising watching the attitude of most of those lecturers whom mostly are not even competent not to even mention the sadistic ones

This is a webometrics ranking and not academic ranking. It only rate the the schools web presence and not the quality of teaching. Regardless, Nigerian education is not as bad as Nigerians portray it. If not, why do most universities abroad still allow or BSc holders to do a MSc or PHd with their degrees?

The only way for Nigerian universities to catch up their western counterparts is through funding. Here is how Manchester University do it. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/
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The University of Manchester invested over £6.8m to support postgraduate research students in 2009/10. In addition to these internal funds, a substantial amount of funding was also generated from research councils, industry and other external sources. In research council funding alone, the University receives an average of £20 million per year to support its postgraduate taught and research degree students across a variety of disciplines.

I don't see why big companies in Nigeria can't not help in funding our universities, Rich people across the country can also raise funds for our schools. But no! they would rather spend their monies abroad on their kids school fees and what not.

they wont give u a job with ur naija Bsc but they will give u admission for Msc or Phd not because of the quality of your education but because you are paying for it, check ur yahoo mail, you will always see online masters of liverpool university, the schools only want to make more money.

Nigerian Universities Fail To Make It to top 1,600, where they expected to before?, the standard of education in Nigeria is below zero

Nigerians needs to do away with this useless rating, it does not good to us. We need to address funding our education system to improve efficiency and creativity among the young ones.

Yet my chancellor go dey form : "There are only 2 universities in Africa. Covenant University and all others."

babakb:

they wont give u a job with ur naija Bsc but they will give u admission for Msc or Phd not because of the quality of your education but because you are paying for it, check ur yahoo mail, you will always see online masters of liverpool university, the schools only want to make more money.

Im not even talking of online masters like university of Liverpool( a low ranking uni in the UK) but a full time residential study. U wl need to go through their education to appreciate their job assesement which most intl students (not just Nigerians) fail because we are in different climes. Many Nigerians secure good jobs after the MSc and Phd in addition to their BSc from Nigeria.

Na 2day, But the ratings are surprising though especially concerning the arrangement.

Why should they? Theyre absolute rubbish! the nonsense taught at those schools im still suprised students scramble for appauling education!

The one thing nigeria could have maintained in high standards they refuse! kmt

Students now leaving nigeria to go ghana to study its absolutely disgraceful.

Meanwhile the children of the commisioner of education is paying thousands of pounds to attend university in England.

Maybe if they lobbied all public servants MUST use public services this will change!