Former executive secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Peter Okebukola, has said that the University of Ibadan deserves to be the best university in 2021 award.

Mr Okebukola, who heads the ranking committee set up by NUC, stated this at a two-day capacity building workshop organised by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund) yesterday in Abuja. Peoplesgazette reports.

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The Federal University of Technology Akure came second. Information Guide Nigeria

Mr Okebukola expatiated that the institutions were scored based on full-time students, international students, students and staff ratio, efficiency, Google scholar index, and contribution to the knowledge economy.

Other criteria, according to him, are the percentage of international staff, the percentage of programmes with full-time accreditation, and all citations per capita.jamb results

“For this 2021 edition, based on the 12 indicators that we have developed, University of Ibadan is the first followed by the Federal University of Technology Akure. Next year we will look at the indicators that we used this year and see whether there are things to add or drop,” added Mr Okebukola.

“So it is going to be an annual thing. The full report of the ranking which covers the best university in each region of the country with details of every statistics will be released soonest.”

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