FULL LIST: UI, UNILAG, CU ranked as Nigeria’s top three varsities for 2023

The University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG), and Covenant University (CU) have been ranked as Nigeria’s top three varsities for 2023.

Times Higher Education (THE) released its latest world university rankings on Wednesday.

The list includes 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions.

The ranking table is based on 13 performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas including teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.

The ranking analysed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.

Overall, THE collected over 680,000 data points from more than 2,500 institutions that submitted data.

Queried based on the summation of all the indicators, the database showed that UI was ranked first in the 401-500 set, followed by UNILAG also ranked within the same set.

The two are succeeded by CU which was ranked within the 601-800 set of the 1799 institutions entered.

See the full list below;

1. University of  Ibadan
2. University of Lagos
3. Covenant University
4. Federal University of Technology, Akure
5. University of Benin
6. University of Ilorin
7. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
8. Obafemi Awolowo University
9. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
10. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
11. Nnamdi Azikiwe University
12. Adamawa State University, Mubi
13. Akwa Ibom State University
14. Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
15. American University of Nigeria
16. Augustine University
17. Babcock University
18. Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science, and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti
19. Baze University
20. Bells University of Technology
21. Benson Idahosa University
22. Bowen University
23. Coal City University
24. Cross River University of Technology
25. Ebonyi State University
26. Edo State University, Uzairue
27. Evangel University, Akaeze
28. Federal University, Gashua
29. Federal University of Kashere
30. Federal University of Lafia
31. Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun
32. Federal University of Technology, Minna
33. Federal University of Technology, Owerri
34. First Technical University
35. Fountain University
36. Gregory University, Uturu
37. Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
38. University of Jos
39. Kings University
40. Lagos State University
41. Landmark University
42. Michael and Cecilia Ibru University
43. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike
44. Niger Delta University
45. Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil
46. Novena University
47. Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology
48. Salem University
49. Samuel Adegboyega University
50. Sokoto University
51. Umar Musa Yar’Adua University
52. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
53. University of Uyo
54. Veritas University, Abuja
55. Wellspring University
56. Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano