Nigerian Universities Missing From List Of Top 1000 Universities In The World

 

No University in Nigeria is ranked among the top 1000 universities in the world according to a ranking released by the Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) for its 2016 ranking of universities across the world.

The ranking, released on Monday,sees the United States claim top stake as Harvard University claims top spot as the best higher institution in the world, followed by Stanford University, also in the U.S.

Another school in the U.S, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the third best in the world.

Two universities in the United Kingdom, University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, are ranked fourth and fifth respectively.

Five other American universities are also ranked within the top 10 – they are Columbia University, sixth position; University of California, Berkley, seventh; University of Chicago, eighth; Princeton University, ninth; and Yale University, 10th.

In Africa, only nine universities made the list with South Africa (Five) and Egypt (four) having the honours.

For South Africa, the five universities and their rankings, according to the CWUR, are: University of Witwatersrand, 176th; University of Cape Town, 265th; Stellenbosch University, 329th; University of KwaZulu-Natal, 468th; and the University of Pretoria, 697th.

The four from Egypt are Cairo University, 771st; Ain Shams University, 960th; Mansoura University, 985th; and Alexandria University, 995th.