These are the top 30 varsities in Nigeria right now

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July 25, 2016 8:05 AM

University of Nigeria ranked highest of the Nigerian universities on the list, followed by University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin and Covenant University respectively.

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A study of rankings according to data gathered from the World Wide Web,

The data considers the number of pdf files a university has published according to information from google. It relies on information (statistics) of web publications of a University for a Specific period of time; available on google scholar. It is therefore based on volume of research articles published by a university.

The quantity of google scholarly articles a university has reveals how much of research is being conducted by the university; which is what the ranking is all about – a university’s research output.

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Although no Nigerian university was among the first 1000 in the world in 2016,University of Nigeria ranked highest of the Nigerian universities on the list, followed by University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin and Covenant University respectively.

Below is the list of the top 30 Nigerian universities at the Webometrics 2016 Openness ranking for world universities.

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