In the latest (July, 2020) Nigerian Universities ranking released by UniRank and Webometric Ranking, University of Uyo was rated the 29th and 20th best higher institution of learning in the country

The two international platforms have different methodologies of ranking universities.

1. Webometric Ranking

• Research only (bibliometrics) based rankings are biased against technologies, computer science, social sciences and humanities, disciplines that usually amounts for more than half of the scholars and students in a standard comprehensive university.
• Webometrics also measure, in an indirect way, other missions like teaching or the so-called third mission, considering not only the scientific impact of the university activities, but also the economic relevance of the technology transfer to industry, the community engagement (social, cultural, environmental roles) and even the political influence.
• Webometrics uses link analysis for quality evaluation as it is a far more powerful tool than citation analysis or global surveys. In the first case, bibliometrics only counts formal recognition between peers, while links not only includes bibliographic citations but also third parties involvement with university activities. Surveys are not a suitable tool for World Rankings as there is not even a single individual with a deep (several semesters per institution), multi-institutional (several dozen), multidisciplinary (hard sciences, biomedicine, social sciences, technologies) experience in a representative sample (different continents) of universities worldwide.
• Research output is also key topic for Webometrics, but including not only formal (e-journals, repositories) publications but also informal scholarly communication. Web publication is cheaper, maintaining the high standards of quality of peer review processes. It could also reach much larger potential audiences, offering access to scientific knowledge to researchers and institutions located in developing countries and also to third parties (economic, industrial, political or cultural stakeholders) in their local community.

2. UniRank

• being chartered, licensed or accredited by the appropriate Nigerian higher education-related organization.
• offering at least four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor degrees) or postgraduate degrees (master or doctoral degrees).
• delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, face-to-face, non-distance education format.

The top 30 in each of the rankings are:

UniRank

Rank	Name of University	Town
1	University of Benin	Benin City
2	University of Lagos	Lagos
3	Covenant University	Ota
4	University of Ibadan	Ibadan
5	University of Nigeria	Nsukka
6	Rivers State University	Port Harcourt
7	Obafemi Awolowo University	Ile-Ife
8	Ahmadu Bello University	Zaria
9	University of Ilorin	Ilorin
10	University of Port Harcourt	Port Harcourt
11	Adekunle Ajasin University	Akungba Akoko
12	Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta	Abeokuta
13	Landmark University	Omu-Aran
14	Ladoke Akintola University of Technology	Ogbomoso
15	American University of Nigeria	Yola
16	Federal University of Technology, Akure	Akure
17	Afe Babalola University	Ado-Ekiti
18	Pan-Atlantic University	Lagos
19	Babcock University	Ilishan-Remo
20	University of Jos	Jos
21	Lagos State University	Ojo
22	Federal University, Oye-Ekiti	Oye-Ekiti
23	Skyline University Nigeria	Kano
24	Federal University of Technology, Owerri	Owerri
25	Nile University of Nigeria	Abuja
26	University of Abuja	Abuja
27	Bayero University, Kano	Kano
28	Bowen University	Iwo
29	University of Uyo	Uyo
30	Ambrose Ali University	Ekpoma

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Webometric

Rank	World Rank	Name of University
1	1249	University of Ibadan
2	1365	Covenant University, Ota
3	1673	University of Nigeria
4	1728	Obafemi Awolowo University
5	1821	University of Lagos
6	2266	Ahmadu Bello University
7	2471	University of Port Harcourt
8	2496	Federal University of Technology, Akure
9	2676	University of Benin
10	2876	Adekunle Ajasin University
11	3005	Federal University of Technology, Minna
12	3251	Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
13	3327	Bayero University, Kano
14	3393	University of Calabar
15	3446	Landmark University
16	3497	University of Ilorin
17	3568	University of Jos
18	3571	Lagos State University
19	3607	Federal University of Technology, Owerri
20	3613	University of Uyo
21	3872	Rivers State University of Science & Technology
22	3922	Redeemer’s University
23	3974	University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
24	4015	Federal University, Oye Ekiti
25	4072	University of Abuja
26	4118	University of Maiduguri
27	4121	Usmanu Danfodiyo University
28	4354	Federal University, Dutse
29	4400	Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
30	4588	Osun State University

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Rankings were last updated, July, 2020.