Times Higher Education has rated Covenant University, Ota, University of Ibadan, University of Lagos, and Edo University high on its Impact Rankings for 2021.
A global body, the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings assesses universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 4, which focuses on lifelong learning.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings.
It comprises the world’s overall, subject, and reputation rankings, alongside three regional league tables, Asia, Latin America, and BRICS & Emerging Economies which are generated by different weightings.
The 2021 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings edition is the third in the series.
It covers 1,117 universities in 94 nations/regions. University of Manchester, England was ranked first globally.
The University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria and the University of Witwatersrand, all in South Africa, were rated first, second and third on the African continent.
However, in the Nigerian universities category, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State was rated number one while Edo State University which was founded in 2016, as the youngest among the top-ranked in Nigeria.
Covenant University is a private Pentecostal Christian University, which has been operating with official status since 2002 in Ota, Nigeria.
It is one of the leading universities in Africa found on Christian Mission Ethos.
The institution has four colleges namely the College of Business and Social Sciences, College of Leadership and Development Studies, College of Engineering, and the College of Science and Technology.
In 2018, the Nigerian Universities Commission ranked Covenant the best private university in Nigeria and the sixth-best university overall.
