Bad News:- No Nigerian University Was Among The “World’s Best 700 Universities In The World”

No Nigerian university is in the first 700
higher institutions of learning in the
world and the first 18 in Africa,
according to the QS World University
Rankings 2015/16.

However, South Africa has nine
institutions while Egypt has five.
Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
have one institution each.
“This is the 12th edition of QS’s
annual ranking of the world’s top
universities, which uses six
performance indicators to assess
institutions’ global reputation,
research impact, staffing levels and
international complexion,” the
report said.

In Africa, the University of Cape
Town, South Africa, is ranked first
on the continent and 171st in the
world. The Stellenbosch University,
South Africa, is rated second in
Africa and 302nd in the world. The
University of the Witwatersrand is
the third on the continent and 331st
globally.
On the global scale, the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, United States, scored 100
per cent to retain its top spot in the
QS rankings for the fourth year
consecutively. Harvard University
(US) climbed two places to rank
second, followed by the University of
Cambridge (United Kingdom), and
Stanford University (US) in joint
third. MIT came first in the 2012
global rating – a position which
Harvard and Cambridge universities
had once occupied – and has
remained there ever since.
“The primary aim of the QS World
University Rankings is to help
students make informed comparisons
of leading universities around the
world,” stated the report. “Based on
six performance indicators, the
rankings are designed to assess
universities in four areas: research,
teaching, employability and
internationalisation.
Each of the six
indicators carries a different
weighting when calculating the
overall scores (see below). Four of
the indicators are based on ‘hard’
data, and the remaining two are
based on major global surveys – one
of academics and another of
employers – each the largest of their
kind.”

The reports said the universities
were placed on 40 per cent scale of
academic reputation; employer
reputation, 10 per cent; student-to-
faculty ratio, 20 per cent; citations
per faculty, 20 per cent;
international faculty ratio, five per
cent; and international student ratio,
five per cent.
A total of 82 countries are
represented in the QS World
University Rankings this year, with
the largest shares claimed by the US
(154), UK (71), Germany (43) and
France (41). Japan has 38 entries;
Australia, 33; China, 30; Canada and
Italy, 26 apiece; Brazil, 22; and
Russia 21.

After the US, UK, Switzerland and
Singapore, the highest entry is
claimed by Australia, with the
Australian National University in
joint 19th. France makes its first
appearance with the École Normale
Supérieure (ENS Paris) in 23rd place,
followed by Canada’s McGill
University in 24th. China’s top
entrant, Tsinghua University, climbs
22 places to rank 25th while the
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology gains 12 positions to
reach 28th.

Source: NL