This Proposed Ranking System was developed for the purpose of ranking all tertiary institutions in developing nation (A Case study of Nigeria Universities). Nine existing ranking systems were considered in this study and aggregated to form a unified system. Twenty-two criteria were identified as a result of the aggregation but only seventeen criteria are used and percentage weights were also assigned objectively to each. Web crawling algorithm was employed to extract the value of each criteria that are available on the university website while other criteria that are not available are sourced from the National Universities Commission official website http://www.nuc.edu.ng (Nigeria Statistical Digest Report, 2018) are manually input into the proposed ranking systems. System implementation was carried out in PHP and Python. The best five universities from the proposed ranking system are University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Lagos, University of Benin and University of Ilorin. The proposed ranking system will give a better and reliable ranking result for universities in developing nations than other existing ranking systems because it contained more robust parameters. Hence, it is recommended as a tool for ranking of tertiary institutions in developing nations.

Criteria Criteria Description Weight (%)
(1) Number of Publications The total number of research publication by staff of the university 10%
over a certain period of years.

(2) Number of times faculty No of times a university staff research output were cited (citation). 10%
were cited

(3) International Faculty No of foreign members of the university 3%

(4) International Students No of Foreign students in the university 3%

(5) Noble prize by faculty No of Staff of the university that has won a Nobel Prize Medals. 10%

(6) Size of the university website The number of university web pages that is recovered from Google. 5%

(7) University Popularity The total number of students in the university 3%

( Visibility of the University The number of unique external links received by the university website 5%
on the Web which can be obtained from Google.

(9) Number of Multi-Dimensional Files The number of different files type documents such as Adobe (.pdf), 5%
Adobe PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt)
that are associated with each university. The results for each file types will be extracted
from Google, log-normalized and merge together in order to generate the rank.

(10) Faculty/Student ratio Its measure the ratio of the number of lecturers divided by the number of 10%
students in the university.

(11) H-Index of the University It is calculated by counting the largest numbers (h) of publications by staff of the 10%
university for articles that had been cited at least many times each over a certain (n) period of years.

(12) PhDs Awarded The total number of PhDs that is awarded by the university per academic year. 3%

(13) Noble prize by Alumni The number of Alumni of the university that have won a Nobel Prize Medals. 5%

(14) Patents No of patent applications by the university that is indexed in Google Scholar and its 10%
obtained from www.patents.google.com or from https://patentscope.wipo.int

(15) Academic programmes of the university No of academic programmes of the university with full accreditation 2%
with full accreditation status.

(16) Student completion rate The total number of students in the graduating class in a year minus the number 2%
of students who have completed their record on time. 2%

(17) Proportion of the academic staff of the university at professorial level No of full professors in the university 4%
TOTAL 100%

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Oba awon university

I rep. Unn.

of the greatest ladokites

Great Lions and Lionesses....I dey hail oh

mankan2k7:
of the greatest ladokites

Great

Better by far

mankan2k7:
of the greatest ladokites

I sight una o...University that strike more than thunder...

Ayomideen:
Better by far

Oyah. Your head dey Dia gidigba

Ayomideen:
Better by far

which university is far better from the other from the proposed ranking system?

FlordFlorez:
I rep. Unn.

UNN is in 7th position and they did very well in the proposed ranking system because they have high web impact and presence.

I doubt the authenticity of this ranking especially with the schools am seeing. There are some schools that rarely publish paper but they are ranked high

gabonsky:


which university is far better from the other from the proposed ranking system?

Lol
Don't misunderstand me
That's just Unilorin's motto or should I say slogan

UNN and others.

Plz don't counter me,
am avin stress

After considering every criterion that determines the best universities in nigeria.. then I can confidently vouch for the following as top 10..
1. Unilag
2.ui
3.oau
4.unn
5. Abu
6.covenant
7. Uniben
8.lasu
9. Unilorin
10. Uniport

Those are the best and top universities in nigeria.. forget different rankings..

edoairways:
I doubt the authenticity of this ranking especially with the schools am seeing. There are some schools that rarely publish paper but they are ranked high

That is why its called proposed ranking system, what i want you to look at is the criteria description and its assigned weight. you can download the full paper https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rt4mWHQkgv4acoT6SXUC5dqEqawOTfBE/view?usp=sharing

I am proposing this ranking system to be the yardstick or benchmark for ranking universities in Nigeria because we don't have one yet, we depend on foreign ranking bodies for position of our universities in the league table like Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Webometric Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) and QS World University Ranking etc.

seanwilliam:
After considering every criterion that determines the best universities in nigeria.. then I can confidently vouch for the following as top 10..
1. Unilag
2.ui
3.oau
4.unn
5. Abu
6.covenant
7. Uniben
8.lasu
9. Unilorin
10. Uniport

Those are the best and top universities in nigeria.. forget different rankings..

you can't just vouch and consider criteria for determining the top universities without educating us how you derived it

which criteria description and assigned weight do you used in your ranking model and which formula do you used?

gabonsky:


you can't just vouch and consider criteria for determining the top universities without educating us how you derived it

which criteria description and assigned weight do you in your ranking model and which formula do you used?

1. Reputation
2. Recognition
3. Alumni network
4. Standard of teaching
5. Graduates performance e.t.c

seanwilliam:


1. Reputation
2. Recognition
3. Alumni network
4. Standard of teaching
5. Graduates performance e.t.c

All what you wrote here is part of the seventeen criteria that formed our unified system using Venn Diagram. please download the paper to understand the method we used in derived the criteria.

Conscious, vigilant and progressive �

kilonshele101:
Conscious, vigilant and progressive
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