UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN RANKED 16 IN AFRICA

The University of Ibadan has been ranked 16th best university in Africa, according to the latest edition of Ranking Web of University. The Nigeria’s first university, was recently ranked the best university in the country while Covenant University and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife came second and third respectively. READ ALSO: University of Ibadan ranked among top 25 universities in Africa The information obtained by Naij.com from Ranking Web of University revealed that the latest ranking of African universities was “built with the indicators obtained during this month in order to maintain the freshness of the data of the most current and updated Ranking of Universities. “This version is final, but you can expect minor changes if errors are discovered after publication. “Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more than 24,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. The best ten universities in the world University of Ibadan's world ranking “We intend to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflect accurately their activities. If the web performance of an institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider their web, open access and transparency policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality of their electronic publications. “Data is collected between 1 and 20 of January or July, depending of the edition. Each variable is obtained at least two times during that period and the maximum value is chosen for discarding mistakes or errors. University of Ibadan's African ranking “Volatility of search engines is very high so figures can be different and not easily replicated if the search is performed days later. Google info is very geographically biased, so for our purposes the data are collected using the google.com mirror domain, English as language of the interface and Madrid (Spain) as location. Recall that the same university was ranked as N0 25 in Africa by Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2016-2017.