The Times Higher Education has released the 2024 World universities rankings across 108 countries and regions.
In Nigeria, 15 universities featured on the list with Covenant University taking the first position.
University of Ibadan comes second while Federal University of Technology, Akure and University of Lagos holds the third and fourth positions respectively.
Globally, the University of Oxford tops the ranking for the eighth year in a row but others in the top five have seen shifts in their ranks.
Stanford University moves up to second place, pushing Harvard University down to fourth.
This year’s ranking analyzed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally.
“Overall, we collected 411,789 data points from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data”, The Times Higher Education stated.
Here is a list of best Nigerian Universities 2024
1 Covenant University
2 University of Ibadan
3 Federal Univ of Tech, Akure
4 University of Lagos
5 Bayero University
6 University of Ilorin
7 University of Nigeria, Nsukka
8 Afe Babalola University
9 University of Benin
10 Federal Univ of Agric, Abk
11 Ladoke Akintola Uni of Tech
12 Lagos State University
13 Nnamdi Azikiwe University
15 University of Port Harcourt
