The Centre for World University Rankings
(CWUR) has just released its 2016 ranking of world
Universities on Monday.
It is pathetic that no university in Nigeria was found among world’s top 1,000.
Harvard University, United States, was on top as
the best higher institution in the world, followed by Stanford University, both in the
U.S. Another school in the U.S, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the third best in
the world.
University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, both from United Kingdom are ranked fourth and fifth respectively.
Other five American universities ranked among the the top 10 – they 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. 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.
This is not a good one. nigeria and Africa at large should invest more aggressively in their educational sector.