The University of Ilorin Faculty of Engineering has been adjudged the best in the Nigeria by the renowned University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) in its 2013-2014 Field Rankings.
Established in 2009, URAP is one of the research laboratories at the Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.
Its main objective is to develop a ranking system for the world universities based on academic performances, which is determined by quality and quantity of scholarly publications.
In a letter informing the Vice-Chancellor of the UniIlorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, of the development, the Director of URAP, Prof. Nazife Baykal, said that the exercise was carried out using six academic performance indicators.
These are: the Number of Articles, measuring current productivity; Citation, measuring research impact; Total Document, measuring the sustainability of scientific production by quantifying all scholarly literature including conference papers, reviews, letters and discussions; Article Impact Total, measuring scientific impact which is derived by aggregating the impact factors of journals in which a university published articles; Citation Impact Total, measuring the received citation quality, which is based on the impact factors of journals where the cited articles are published; and International Collaboration that measures the global acceptance of a university.
Prof. Baykal explained that “URAP ranking system is completely based on objective data obtained from reliable bibliometric sources”, adding that its major focus is academic quality.
Their website is www.urapcenter.org
Recall that statistics from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board showed that UniIlorin is the most subscribed University by admission seekers in the country with a total of over 85,945 candidates seeking admission to the institution in the 2015/2016 academic session.
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