Finally!!! University Of Ibadan ranks 978 in Top World Universities Ranking for the first time.

University of Ibadan has secured a spot in the top 978 ranked universities in the world. In the ranking ranking released by the Times Higher Education, Nigeria’s premier university was ranked 801 on the list.


UI was the only Nigerian university to make the list. Earlier in 2016, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU) and the Center for World Universities Ranking (CWUR) released a list of the top 500 and 1000 world universities respectively and no Nigerian university was on the list.
South Africa and Egypt had the highest number of universities on the list from the black continent.
63 universities from the United states made it to the top 200 while 32 from the United Kingdom also made the cut.