Nigerian universities fail to make list of world’s top
1,000
The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR)
has just released its 2016 ranking of universities
across the world.
Sadly, no university in Nigeria made the list of the
world’s top 1,000.
The ranking, released on Monday, placed Harvard
University, United States, on top as the best higher
institution in the world, followed by Stanford
University, also in the U.S.
Another school in the U.S, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, is the third best in the
world.
Two universities in the United Kingdom, University
of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, are
ranked fourth and fifth respectively.
Five other American universities are also ranked
within the top 10 – they are Columbia University,
sixth position; University of California, Berkley,
seventh; University of Chicago, eighth; Princeton
University, ninth; and Yale University, 10th.
The U.S has a total number of 224 universities
among the top 1,000, followed by China, with 90.
Japan has 74, while the United Kingdom has 65.
Others are: Germany, 56; France, 48; Italy, 48;
Spain, 41; South Korea, 36; Canada, 32; Australia,
27.
In Africa, only universities in South Africa and Egypt
made the list. South Africa has five, while Egypt has
four.
For South Africa, the five universities and their
rankings, according to the CWUR, are: University of
Witwatersrand, 176th; University of Cape Town,
265th; Stellenbosch University, 329th; University of
KwaZulu-Natal, 468th; and the University of Pretoria,
697th.
The four from Egypt are Cairo University, 771st; Ain
Shams University, 960th; Mansoura University,
985th; and Alexandria University, 995th.
No Nigerian university also made the list in 2015.
CWUR said it used eight objectives and robust
indicators to rank the world’s top 1,000 universities,
and listed them as follows:
1) Quality of Education, measured by the number of
a university’s alumni who have won major
international awards, prizes, and medals relative to
the university’s size [25%]
2) Alumni Employment, measured by the number of
a university’s alumni who have held CEO positions
at the world’s top companies relative to the
university’s size [25%]
3) Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of
academics who have won major international
awards, prizes, and medals [25%]
4) Publications, measured by the number of
research papers appearing in reputable journals [5%]
5) Influence, measured by the number of research
papers appearing in highly-influential journals [5%]
6) Citations, measured by the number of highly-
cited research papers [5%]
7) Broad Impact, measured by the university’s h-
index [5%]
Patents, measured by the number of international
patent filings [5%]
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