COVENANT UNIVERSITY RANKED NIGERIA’S BEST IN TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION 2024 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING
By Bukola Afolabi
LAGOS, NIGERIA – OCTOBER 9, 2024
Covenant University (CU) has emerged as Nigeria’s top university in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) 2024 World University Rankings, released yesterday.
The 2024 rankings feature 1,907 universities across 108 countries and regions, with CU falling within the 800-1000 global scale alongside the University of Ibadan (UI).
According to THE, the rankings were determined by 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.
This year’s analysis included over 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally.
“Overall, we collected 411,789 datapoints from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data,” THE said.
Globally, the University of Oxford topped the rankings for the eighth consecutive year, followed by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge.
CU’s ranking reaffirms its position as a leading institution in Nigeria.
“The ranking is a testament to our commitment to academic excellence and research,” said CU’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abiodun Adebayo.