Recently updated on February 12th, 2023 at 12:33 pm
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings has ranked Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) as the Best University in Nigeria and one of the best 400 in the world.
On the rankings, Covenant University (CU) emerged second; University of Ibadan (UI) emerged third; University of Lagos (UNILAG) emerged fourth; Landmark University emerged fifth; Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike emerged sixth; Babcock University emerged seventh; Edo State University, Uzairue emerged eighth; and Lagos State University (LASU) emerged ninth.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, respected worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, focuses on “helping the world’s universities to achieve excellence” by looking at performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four key areas of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The International Ranking Body is also the definitive source of data, insight and expertise on higher education worldwide while its business is built on 10 million data points from 2,500 institutions in 93 countries, on unrivalled news, insight and intelligence; and on a relationship of trust with universities spanning 50 years.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 included more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
This year’s ranking analysed more than 108 million citations across over 14.4 million research publications and included survey responses from almost 22,000 scholars globally. Overall, we collected over 430,000 data points from more than 2,100 institutions that submitted data.
The global ranking for Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) is coming 10 months after the Alper-Doger Scientific Index, ranked the same university as the “Best Research University” among the 99 Private Universities in Nigeria and No. 10 out of 197 Public and Private Universities in Nigeria in July 2021.
The Acting Vice-Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Professor E. Smaranda Olarinde, who received it with utmost gladness, attributed the uncommon feat to the cooperation that the University has consistently received from all stakeholders such as the National Universities Commission, NUC, the Medical & Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, Council for Legal Education and the Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, among others, the parents, the ever-committed teachers and the teeming student population of the University.
Olarinde was particularly happy that people and organizations outside Nigeria are following ABUAD’s achievements with keen interest since it commenced Academic works on Monday, January 4, 2010, whereby it has institutionalized qualitative and functional education, raised a new generation of Nigerians and ensured that Nigeria regains its lost glory in education.
The university boss thanked the parents and other well-wishers who have inundated her and the University with congratulatory messages on this monumental achievement.
