According to the QS World University Rankings 2015/16 all the Nigerian Universities have been left out of the top 700 best schools in the world.
No Nigerian university is in the top first 700 higher institutions of learning in the world and the first 18 in Africa, according to the QS World University Rankings 2015/16.
In the top 700 ranking recently released, South Africa has nine institutions in the ranking while Egypt had five. Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have one institution each.
“This is the 12th edition of QS’s annual ranking of the world’s top universities, which uses six performance indicators to assess institutions’ global reputation, research impact, staffing levels and international complexion,” the report said.
In Africa, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is ranked first on the continent and 171st in the world. The Stellenbosch University, South Africa, is rated second in Africa and 302nd in the world. The University of the Witwatersrand is the third on the continent and 331st globally.
On the global scale, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, scored 100 per cent to retain its top spot in the QS rankings for the fourth year consecutively. MIT came first in the 2012 global rating – a position which Harvard and Cambridge universities had once occupied and has remained there ever since.
Harvard University (US) climbed two places to rank second, followed by the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and Stanford University (US) in joint third position.