The National Universities Commission (NUC), has declared that the University of Ibadan (UI) is the best ranked university in its latest 2021 ranking released on Monday.

The ranking was carried out using 12 indicators in 113 universities across the country.

The institutions were ranked based on the total number of full-time students, number of international students, students and staff ratio, efficiency, google scholar index and contribution to the knowledge economy.

Other criteria include: percentage of international staff, percentage of programmes with full-time accreditation, all citations per capital, amongst others.

The lead presenter, Prof. Peter Okebukola, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday during a capacity building workshop on improving the ranking of public universities in Nigeria, Organised by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).

Okebukola who spoke on the overview of global university ranking and the place of Nigerian higher education system in the knowledge economy, said the full report will be made available to NUC and uploaded on a website.

“You cannot get any form of ranking system in the whole world that does what Nigeria has done.

“For this 2021 edition, based on the 12 indicators that will have been developed, University of Ibadan is the first followed by Federal University of Technology, Akure.

“Next year we will look at the indicators that we used this year and see whether there are things to add or drop.

“So it is going to be an annual thing,” he said.

However, he lamented that some universities did not show up for the ranking, while urging them to partake in the next ranking which has become an annual event.

The full report of the ranking covers the best university in each geopolitical zone with details of every statistics.

Earlier, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Elias Bogoro, said the workshop was part of the strategies to reposition the university system in Nigeria.

He said Nigerian universities are not doing well in global ranking hence the need to reposition and showcase them to the world.

“The situation is so unfortunate and worrisome that it calls for reflection and action on the part of the government, the Nigerian intelligentsia and indeed the Nigerian people.

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