UI Ranked Among Top 1000 Universities in the World

The University of Ibadan (UI) has made Nigerians proud by becoming the first Nigerian institution to appear in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) list of the world’s top 1,000 universities.

The 2019 installment of the ARWU, known as the Shanghai rankings, was released on 15 August. Ibadan was ranked in the bottom band, spanning places 901-1000.

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The universities of Cape Town (UCT) and the Witwatersrand (Wits) are in joint top spot in Africa in the 201-300 band. UCT moved up one band to re-join Wits in first place in Africa. 

Egypt’s Cairo University moved up one band to pass Stellenbosch University as the third highest in Africa. Cairo moved up to the 301-400 band while Stellenbosch remained in the 401-500 band, along with the universities of Pretoria and KwaZulu-Natal. UP’s position was unchanged while UKZN moved up one band.

ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university.

More than 1800 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published”

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Harvard and Stanford in the United States took the top two positions. Almost all the universities in the top 20 are in the US.