LAUTECH retains NUC ranking as best state university

The latest ranking of Nigerian Universities has shown the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, as the best State University in the country.

It returned it as the fourth-best overall university in Nigeria.

The university, owned by the Oyo State government, comes after the University of Ibadan, Redeemers University and Covenant University respectively.

Titled 2021 ranking of Nigerian Universities, the ranking instituted by the National Universities Commission (NUC), as one of the several drivers of quality improvement of the Nigerian University system was powered by the League of Directors of Academic Planning (LDAPs) of all universities in Nigeria.

It is one of the several projects of Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, the Executive Secretary of NUC and implemented under the auspices of the NUC Strategy Advisory Committee (STRADVCOM).

The announcement, made on Monday afternoon with other details available on nusrankings.ng.

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LAUTECH retains NUC ranking as best state university