Top 20 Best Universities In Nigeria 2021 | University Ranking

So many people are interested in Nigerian Universities ranking every year by NUC, interestingly, National Universities Commission (NUC) has started ranking public Universities in Nigeria.

Ranking of Universities in the country was stopped for a while, however, the Executive Secretary of the commission cleared the air early this year that a committee has been constituted that will advise the Commission on the ranking of Universities in Nigeria.

The NUC Universities ranking is out, and the University of Ibadan (UI) ranked best university in the country while Ladoke Akintola University ranked best state university in Nigeria.

Every year webometric conducts research and rank universities in Nigeria according to their four ranking factors.  The “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

According to 2021 University ranking, University of Ibadan emerge the best University in Nigeria while Covenant University emerged as the best private university in the ranking on the 2nd position in the national ranking and another private university that surface in the top 10 is Landmark University. Lastly, the best state University is Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho in the ranking on the 12th position.

Top Best Universities In Nigeria

Below are the list of best Universities both Federal, State, and Private schools in Nigeria in that particular order:

1. University of Ibadan
2. Covenant University Ota
3. Obafemi Awolowo University
4. University of Nigeria
5. University of Lagos
6. University of Port Harcourt
7. Ahmadu Bello University
8. Federal University of Technology Akure
9. Landmark University
10. Federal University of Technology Minna
11. Bayero University Kano
12. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
13. University of Calabar
14. University of Benin
15. Adekunle Ajasin University
16. Ekiti State University
17. Olabisi Onabanjo University
18. University of Uyo
19. Nnamdi Azikiwe University
20. Federal University of Technology Owerri
21. Lagos State University
22. University of Abuja
23. University of Jos
24. Redeemer’s University
25. Federal University Oye Ekiti Ekiti State
26. Federal University Dutse Jigawa State
27. University of Ilorin
28. Ebonyi State University
29. Osun State University
30. Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun
31. Delta State University Nigeria
32. University of Agriculture Abeokuta
33. Rivers State University of Science & Technology
34. Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola (Federal University of Technology)
35. Federal University Lokoja Kogi State
36. Niger Delta University
37. Benue State University
38. Usmanu Danfodiyo University
39. University of Maiduguri
40. Imo State University Owerri

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