None of Nigerians first generations Universities have made the list of 30 best universities in Africa for 2015
A rating released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows that the University of Port Harcourt is the named as the sixth best university in Africa, and is the only Nigerian university on the list.
First generation universities , University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University and the University of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University and University of Nigeria, Nusuka were all missing from the list.
The list, which was dominated by South Africa and Egypt, saw the southern Africa country amass 12 positions on the ranking, with the North African country trailing with half a dozen schools. Morocco had three universities. Tunisia came up with another three, while Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria had a single university in the 2015 ranking.
According to WEF, “these results are essentially based on the amount of citations there are for the university’s work”.
Quoting Times Higher Education (THE), WEF said the universities are “derived from the methodology for the current world university ranking, using the 13 factors (below), combining THE’s own enormous database of statistics along with the Elsevier’s Scopus database – a system that highlights some of the continent’s top performers in terms of how often research papers are referred to and cited by other academics globally”.
“This methodology is designed for the research-led globally facing university. Times Higher Education emphasised that not everyone in Africa will find the metrics appropriate to their mission or their strategic priorities making this ranking a starting point of a longer, inclusive conversation involving African institutions.”