According to Universities rankings released by World
Economic Forum (WEF), University of Port
Harcourt , Rivers state is the only Nigerian institution
that made it to the list of top 30 African Universities.
UNIPORT came sixth on the list, behind four South
African and one Ugandan university.
South Africa dominated the list, having 12 institutions in
the ranking. Only one university from Kenya, Ghana,
Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria, respectively,
made the 2015 ranking.
“ These results are essentially based on the
amount of citations there are for the university’s
work, ” the WEF said.
Quoting Times Higher Education (THE), WEF said the
universities are “ derived from the methodology for
the current world university ranking, using the
13 factors (below), combining THE’s own
enormous database of statistics along with the
Elsevier’s Scopus database – a system that
highlights some of the continent’s top
performers in terms of how often research
papers are referred to and cited by other
academics globally .”
“ This methodology is designed for the research-
led globally facing university. Times Higher
Education emphasised that not everyone in
Africa will find the metrics appropriate to their
mission or their strategic priorities making this
ranking a starting point of a longer, inclusive
conversation involving African institutions,” it
added.
See full ranking list below
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