UNILAG RANKS 9TH AMONGST TOP 10 AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES

While students from across Africa continue to move abroad to study at leading learning institutions in America and Europe, Africa boasts its own league of great institutions. Among the top ten Universities in Africa is Nigeria’s University of Lagos who emerged in the 9th position in a recent ranking released by Africa.com.

According to Africa.com, in determining which University was the best, it collected both qualitative and quantitative data to ascertain which University would make the Top Ten List. However they created two different lists with one dedicated to South African Universities. Without this distinction, the list would have been dominated by South African Universities and would not be useful to those seeking Pan-African perspective.

The criteria for selection included; undergraduate and graduate school reputation among higher peers, student selectivity for entering undergraduate class, quality and quantity of faculty research and international student ratio as well as extensive network on the continent for qualitative input as a “reality check” to the result yielded by the data.

This is an indication that the huge decay in the Nigerian educational system is gradually becoming a thing of the past. We employ other Nigerian universities to work towards excellence and perhaps more of our universities will make the list next time out.


Source: allAfrica