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Covenant Named Among 100 Best Varsities In Developing Countries
By Ayodele Oluwafemi
Covenant University is the only Nigerian university named among the best 100 universities in the emerging economies category of 2020 in the annual list released by Times Higher Education (THE)
The Bishop David Oyedepo inspired university was ranked 91st in the annual list released by Times Higher Education (THE), on Tuesday.
The institution was the only Nigerian university to make the list in the 100 best universities.
Covenant University was jointly ranked in 91st spot with National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan and the University of Perandeniya, Sri Lanka.
THE disclosed that the list included only institutions in countries classified by the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE Group as ‘advanced emerging’, ‘secondary emerging’ or ‘frontier”, added that the ranking was done using 13 key performance indicators of institutions including their teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The University of Ibadan (UI) got the 105 position while the University of Lagos (UNILAG) was ranked 201–250 out of the 533 universities.
According to THE, the list of 100 best universities in the emerging economies 2020:
Tsinghua University
Peking University
Zhejiang University
University of Science and Technology of China
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Fudan University
National Taiwan
Nanjing University
University of Cape Town
University of the Witwatersrand
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
King Abdulaziz University
University of São Paulo
Khalifa University
Indian Institute of Science
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
HSE University
Wuhan University
Alfaisal University
Tongji University
University of Malaya
Sun Yat-sen University
Beijing Normal University
Stellenbosch University
Harbin Institute of Technology
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
Taipei Medical University
National Tsing Hua University
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
United Arab Emirates University
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
University of Iceland
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
ITMO University
Central South University
University of Tartu
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Qatar University
Sabancı University
King Saud University
National Chiao Tung University
Tianjin University
Cyprus University of Technology
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
Nankai University
University of Cyprus
Reykjavik University
South China University of Technology
Southeast University
Beihang University
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)
Tomsk State University
University of KwaZulu-Natal
University of Campinas
Koç University
China Medical University, Taiwan
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
University of Crete
National Taiwan Normal University
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Beijing Institute of Technology
Charles University in Prague
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
University of the Philippines
Semmelweis University
Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University
Institute of Chemical Technology
Renmin University of China
Bilkent University
East China Normal University
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Hunan University
Mahidol University
Northwestern Polytechnical University
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Novosibirsk State University
Shenzhen University
Quaid-i-Azam University
Shandong University
Cankaya University
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
National University of Science and Technology (MISiS)
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Covenant University
National Yang-Ming University
University of Perandeniya
University of Desarrollo
Diego Portales University
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Pontifical Javeriana University
Xiamen University
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Istanbul Technical University
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