Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, has ranked as the Best University in Nigeria and one of the best 400 in the world.
The rating was done by Times Higher Education Impact Rankings that focuses on helping the world’s universities to achieve excellence through performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four key areas of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Its business is built on 10 million data points from 2,500 institutions in 93 countries.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 covered more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
This year’s ranking analysed more than 108 million citations across over 14.4 million research publications and included survey responses from almost 22,000 scholars globally. Overall, it collected over 430,000 data points from more than 2,100 institutions that submitted data.
The global ranking for ABUAD came 10 months after the Alper-Doger Scientific Index ranked it as the Best Research University among the 99 private universities in Nigeria and 10th out of 197 public and private universities in Nigeria in July 2021.
The information was published on the website of The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ website, followed by a letter dated Wednesday, April 27, titled, ‘2022 The Impact Rankings’ by the former NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Peter Okebukola.
Okebukola, in a letter to the Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, wrote, “The 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings (measured against the SDGs) were released today. The top three universities are first – Afe Babalola University, second – Covenant University and third – University of Ibadan.
“The others are University of Oxford, United Kingdom; California Institute of Technology, United States of America; Harvard University, United States; Stanford University, United States; University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Princeton University, United States; University of California, Berkeley, United States; Yale University, United States; and The University of Chicago, United States.
“Yet others are Columbia University, United States; Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; Johns Hopkins University, United States; University of Pennsylvania, United States; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Peking University, China; Tsinghua University, China; University of Toronto, Canada; UCL, United Kingdom; University of California, Los Angeles, United States; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Cornell University, University, United States; Duke University, the United States; the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States; as well as Northwestern University, United States among others.”
The acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde, attributed the feat to the cooperation from stakeholders, adding that the Founder and Chancellor of the University, Aare Afe Babalola’s goal of seeing ABUAD becoming one of the best 100 universities in the world is imminent.
