UNN retains 1st Position among Nigerian Universities in Webometric Rankings

National Youth Council of Nigeria presenting Certificate of Excellence to the Vice-Chancellor in his conference room 

UNN retains 1st Position among Nigerian Universities in Webometric Rankings
For the third consecutive time, the University of Nigeria has been ranked the number one university in Nigeria by Webometric, a global ranking system that grades universities based on their web presence, visibility and citations of scholarly articles.
The Webometric university rankings, provide indicators for more than 12,000 universities in the world, it is based on university web presence, visibility and web access. The ranking system measures how strongly a university is present in the web by its own web domain, sub-pages, rich files and published scholarly articles. The ranking system is premised on the belief that web presence is a reliable indicator of the global performance and prestige of  universities and could serve as an indirect way to measure efficiency of universities in the performance of their tripartite function of teaching,

research and knowledge transfer. The ranking which started in 2004 is updated every January and July
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof Benjamin Ozumba announced the latest ranking of the University on Monday, 23rd January 2017 when he flagged-off activities for

the 46th Convocation of the University.
Prof Ozumba said the university pulled a total of 19402 citations in the rankings released on January 2017 to maintain her lead among Nigerian universities. 
“Having retained that enviable position consecutively for three rankings, we now consider it our privilege to remain at the top and we are not ready to abdicate that position”, he said. 
Webometric first rated the University of Nigeria number one in the country in its January 2016 rankings, since then, the institution has maintained the lead with improvements in scholarly article citations.
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