2024 University Ranking: Oxford remains best in the world, Covenant number 1 in Nigeria (Top 40)

Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State has been  listed as Nigeria’s overall best university in THE 2024 Rankings.

THE Rankings, published annually by Times Higher Education, is a comprehensive global ranking of universities.

The higher education intelligence organization has released its 2024 data, capturing 1,907 universities across 108 countries and regions.

It assessed universities based on 18 indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

THE’s 2024 ranking analysed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally.

It collected 411,789 data points from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.

On the global scale, the UK’s University of Oxford tops the THE 2024 Rankings for the ninth year in a row.

With this, Oxford’s reign is now the longest in the ranking’s history, beating Harvard’s eight-year stint which ended in 2011.

Stanford University in the US moved up to second place, pushing the UK’s Harvard University down to fourth place.

The UK’s University of Cambridge slipped to fifth place in 2024, after being in joint third place in 2023.

THE’s Global Top-10 Best Universities

University of Oxford, UK
Stanford University, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Harvard University, US
University of Cambridge, UK
Princeton University, US
California Institute of Technology, US
Imperial College London, UK
University of California, Berkeley US
Yale University, US
Nigeria’s highest-ranking institution on the 2024 list is Covenant University (CU) which fell within the 800-1000 global scale alongside the University of Ibadan (UI).

1. University of Oxford, UK
2. Stanford University, US
3. Massachusetts Institute
4. Technology, US
5. Harvard University, US
6. University of Cambridge, UK
7. Princeton University, US
8. California Institute of Technology, US
9. Imperial College London, UK
10. University of California, Berkeley US
11. Yale University, US

Nigeria’s highest-ranking institution on the 2024 list is Covenant University (CU) which fell within the 800-1000 global scale alongside the University of Ibadan (UI).

Nigeria’s THE Overall Best Universities

1. Covenant University
2. University of Ibadan
3. Federal University of Technology Akure
4. University of Lagos
5. Bayero University
6. University of Ilorin
7. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
8. Afe Babalola University
9. University of Benin
10. Federal University ofAgriculture, Abeokuta
11. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
12. Lagos State University
13. Nnamdi Azikiwe University
14. Obafemi Awolowo University
15. University of Port Harcourt
16. Abia State University
17. Akwa Ibom State University
18. Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
19. Babcock University
20. Baze University
21. Bells University of Technology
22. Benson Idahosa University
23. Delta State University, Abraka
24. Edo State University, Uzairue
25. Edwin Clarke University
26. Elizade University
27. Evangel University, Akaeze
28. Federal University of Kashere
29. Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun
30. Federal University of Technology, Minna
31. Federal University of Technology, Owerri
32. Fountain University
33. Landmark University
34. Nasarawa State University, Keffi
35. Niger Delta University
36. Plateau State University, Bokkos
37. Thomas Adewumi University
38. Veritas University, Abuja
39. Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano

On a national scale, however, Covenant University is listed as Nigeria’s best across teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

Rankings like THE are used by prospective students, employers, and governments as a benchmark to evaluate universities.