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UI, OAU, FUNAAB, UNN shine in global varsity ranking
Four Nigerian Universities, UI, FUNAAB, OAU, and UNN have glowed in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
Announcing the results, Dr. Fred Mensah, a member of the Governing Board of Higher Education Observatory for Africa (HEOFA), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, said over 2,500 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published.
ARWU is one of the most-respected ranking schemes in the world. It uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff members winning nobel prizes and field medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index in the Web of Science, and per capita performance of a university.
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HEOFA noted that “for the first time in the history of ARWU which started in 2003, University of Ibadan appeared in the 800-901 band.
“In the 2022 GRAS ranking which was also released on Monday, Nigeria featured as follows: in Veterinary Sciences, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, emerged in the 201 to 300 group; in Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, was also in the 201 to 300 group; while in Psychology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, emerged in the 401 to 500 group”.
The Top 10 World Universities according to ARWU are:
The chairman of the governing board of HEOFA, Okebukola, congratulated the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, the Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, as well as the authorities of the University of Ibadan, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and Obafemi Awolowo University for this feat.
“With the 2021-2027 strategic plan on ranking and the 2019-2023 blueprint on the Rapid Revitalisation of University Education in Nigeria being implemented by the NUC, the world of ranking will quake with the huge appearance of Nigerian universities in the top 200 in the world before 2030.
“I urge all stakeholders to be part of the provision of the enabling environment of better resourcing of our universities, better welfare scheme for staff to bolster motivation and enhance commitment to quality teaching and research and all in the context of a stable academic calendar in order to achieve our 2030 goal of top ranking in global league tables,” Okebukola concluded.
