Nigerian tertiary institutions were not included in the 2017 edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
The list of the best 800 in the world failed to have many African representations, with Asia, Europe and North America maintaining dominance.
From the African continent, South Africa had the highest number of institutions, eight, on the list.
They are; University of Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University, University of Johannesburg and University of KwaZulu-Natal, North-West University, University of South Africa, and the University of Pretoria.
Harvard and Stanford remain as the top two universities in the world, according to the ARWU study.
Others in the top ten are the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Princeton University.
The University of Oxford, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago make up the top ten.
ARWU ranks universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, which include alumni and staff winning Nobel prizes and fields medals.
Other indicators are highly cited researchers, papers published in Nature and Science, papers indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution.
Although more than 1300 universities are ranked by ARWU, only the best 500 are published.
But in the list of 2017, universities ranked between 501 and 800 were also published.
The ARWU study has been published yearly by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy since 2009.
Another nationwide varsity strike in Nigeria
Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday embarked on an indefinite strike.
Biodun Ogunyemi, president of ASUU, said they resolved to go on the strike because the federal government failed to implement its 2009 agreement and 2013 memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Some of the issues the lecturers have groaned about for years include the non-payment of salaries, non-payment of earned academic allowance (EAA), removal of universities staff schools from funding by government and non-implementation of provisions of the 2014 pension reform act with respect to retired professors and their salaries, amongst others.f
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