BUK Ranks Top 5 Best University In Nigeria
By Kabir Akintayo
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, has listed Bayero University Kano (BUK), among the top 5 best University in Nigeria.
According to Times Higher Education, a body that has been providing trusted performance data on Universities, has based the performance of the institutions across five areas which includes; teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.
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Meanwhile, Covenant University, a private institution, top the Nigerian list, while University of Ibadan came second and Federal University of Technology (FUT), Akure is ranked third on the list, followed by University of Lagos, and Bayero University Kano.
At the global level, the University of Oxford tops the ranking for the eighth year in a row, while Stanford University moves up to second place, pushing Harvard University down to fourth.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) climbs up two places to third this year.
The University of Cambridge slips to fifth place, after being in joint third place last year.
The statement from The Times Higher Education World University indicated that “this year’s ranking analysed 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 datapoints from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.”
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