UNILAG
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has made the first position among Nigerian universities and 401-500th out of over 1,799 institutions across the world.
The positions are contained in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings released on October 12, 2022.
UNILAG is sharing the first spot with the University of Ibadan (UI), which is also ranked 401-500th in the world.
In the 1,201 to 1,500 band are University of Ilorin; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; and Obafemi Awolowo University.
The three universities in the 1500+ category are Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta; Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
In total, Nigeria had 12 universities on the 2023 global rankings.
The top five universities in the 2023 world rankings are Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT.
Chairman of the Nigerian Universities Ranking Advisory Committee (NURAC), Prof. Emeritus Peter Okebukola, in a statement at the end of the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in New York, the United States of America (U.S.A), said in the last 12 months, NURAC had been working with all universities and building capacities to ensure the actualisation of this mandate.
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