Leading universities in Nigeria 2021, by world web ranking

Published by
Doris Dokua Sasu,
Feb 2, 2023
As of January 2021, the University of Ibadan was the leading University in Nigeria. It was founded in 1948 and is the oldest university in the Country. Covenant University Ota, founded in 2002 in Ogun, followed in the ranking. Furthermore, there were 170 universities in Nigeria as of 2020, of which 79 are private institutions. This ranking is mainly based on webometrics, which is the web visibility of the academic institutions.

Leading Nigerian universities as of 2021, by position in global web ranking

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Release date

January 2021

Region

Nigeria

Survey time period

January 2021

Supplementary notes

The source specifies that more than 31 000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide are considered in the global university ranking.

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