The Nigerian University ranking system for the year, 2025 according to TIMES is out with not too many surprises as covenant University takes the lead again.
In Nigeria, somehow, the Government owned universities are trailing the Privately owned universities. It may actually mean one thing, “something is seriously wrong with the priorities of the Nigerian government”.
Example, in the National budget of the government of Nigeria, 2025, it was found that the government budgeted only : NELFUND: N175 BIllion.
Streetlights: N393 Billion…..
The above statistical data would only beam a small light to the priorities of the government.
One may ask, what are the metrics for getting these rankings.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 use 18 metrics across five areas: teaching (29.5%), research environment (29%), research quality (30%), international outlook (7.5%), and industry (4%).
These include reputation surveys, staff-to-student ratios, citation impact, and international collaboration, applied uniformly to Nigerian universities. The methodology is transparent but criticized for biases favoring English-speaking, science-focused institutions and subjectivity in reputation surveys. Data integrity issues, like alleged manipulation, also raise concerns.
Below are the rankings….
According to the TIMES ranking for 2025, here are the top 25 universities in Nigeria:
1. Covenant University, Ogun state.
2. Ahmadu Bello University
3. Landmark University, Kwara State
4. University of Ibadan
5. University of Lagos
6. Bayero University Kano
7. Federal University of Technology, Akure
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8. Federal University of Technology, Minna
9. University of Benin
10. University of Ilorin
11. University of Nigeria Nsukka.
12. Ekiti State University
13. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
14. Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
15. Federal University Oye-Ekiti
16. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
17. Lagos State University
19. Obafemi Awolowo University
20. University of Port Harcourt
21. Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
22. Abia state University
23. Akwa Ibom State University
24. Alex Ekwueme Federal University
25. Ambrose Alli University