The 2018/19 Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) global ranking of universities was released on Monday with the University of Ibadan the only Nigerian university in the top 1000, ranked 991st worldwide and 14th in Africa.
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Seven universities from South Africa, four from Egypt, and one each from Uganda and Tunisia are also made the top 1000 list.
Harvard University, United States, tops the list again for the seventh year in a role. In the second and third place respectively Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in the U.S. In the fourth and fifth position are the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford both of the United Kingdom.
Rounding up the top are University of California, Berkeley, U.S (sixth); Princeton University, U.S (seventh); Columbia University, U.S (eighth); California Institute of Technology, U.S (ninth); and the University of Chicago, U.S (10th).
The U.S leads with 213 universities in the top 1000, followed by China (108), the United Kingdom (62), France (58), and Japan (56).
Germany (54), Italy (45), Spain (38), South Korea (35), and Canada (28) round up the top 10 countries.
“CWUR’s rankings grade universities on seven factors without relying on surveys and university data submissions: quality of teaching, alumni employment, quality of faculty, research output, quality publications, influence, and citations,” CWUR said in a press statement.
“The methodology has been enhanced this year, with research now accounting for 70 per cent of the total score.”
In total, 61 countries have representatives in the top 1000.
