Afe Babalola University ranked the best Nigerian university by US body
The body measured the institution’s performance across four key areas – teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, renowned worldwide by students, teachers, governments, and industry experts, is focused on “helping the world’s universities to achieve excellence.” THEIR looks at performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four key areas of teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.
This information was contained in a letter by the former National Universities Commission (NUC)Executive Secretary, Prof. Peter Okebukola, and addressed to ABUAD’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Smaranda Olarinde.
In his letter, Okebukola said: “The 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings (measured against the SDGs) were released today. The top three universities are first, Afe Babalola University; second, Covenant University; and third is the University of Ibadan.
“Our NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, congratulates the universities and entreats that we should strive to get many more Nigerian universities in the top 200 in the next few years.
“By our strategic plan for 2022-2030, the Nigeria Universities Ranking Advisory Committee (NURAC) will work with all universities in the system to ensure that we are no pushover on the global league tables from 2023.”
While reacting to the latest development, ABUAD’s acting VC, Prof. Olarinde, attributed the feat to the cooperation that the university has received from the NUC, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Council for Legal Education, and the Nigerian Society of Engineers among others.
Olarinde expressed joy that global organizations outside Nigeria are following ABUAD’s achievements with keen interest since it commenced academic works on January 4, 2010.
