How Nigerian institutions fared on list of top 1000 varsities in the world

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July 12, 2016 9:27 AM

Harvard University, United States, came on top of the list as the best higher institution in the world, followed by Stanford University, also in the U.S.

Harvard University

The 2016 ranking of universities across the world have been released by the Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR).

A closer look at the list which was released on Monday, July 11, have revealed that no Nigerian university made the list in the top 1000.

Harvard University, United States, came on top of the list as the best higher institution in the world, followed by Stanford University, also in the U.S.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in US, came third on the list.

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Two universities in the United Kingdom, University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, are ranked fourth and fifth respectively.

Other American universities that made it to the top 10 are Columbia University, sixth position; University of California, Berkley, seventh; University of Chicago, eighth; Princeton University, ninth; and Yale University, 10th.

The U.S has a total number of 224 universities among the top 1,000, followed by China, with 90.

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Japan has 74, while the United Kingdom has 65.

Others are: Germany, 56; France, 48; Italy, 48; Spain, 41; South Korea, 36; Canada, 32; Australia, 27.

In Africa, only universities in South Africa and Egypt made the list. South Africa has five, while Egypt has four.

The five universities that made the list in South Africa were University of Witwatersrand, 176th; University of Cape Town, 265th; Stellenbosch University, 329th; University of KwaZulu-Natal, 468th; and the University of Pretoria, 697th.

The four from Egypt are Cairo University, 771st; Ain Shams University, 960th; Mansoura University, 985th; and Alexandria University, 995th.

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