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The Redeemer’s University has emerged as best private university and second Overall Best University in Nigeria.
Platforms Africa reports that the Head, Directorate of Information of the institution, S. O Adebiyi, who disclosed this in a statement, maintained that this is according to the 2021 ranking of Nigerian universities instituted by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The NUC, Adebiyi said, ranked the Redeemer’s University as the second to only the University of Ibadan but ahead the University of Legos, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nnamdi Azikwe University Nzuka (UNN),Lagos State University (LASU) among others.
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The ranking, he said, is one of the several drivers of quality improvement of the Nigerian university system which was powered by the League of Directors of Academic Planning (LDAPs), which ranked Redeemer’s University as the nation’s second overall best across all categories which comprise federal, state and privately owned universities in the country.
Adebiyi’s statement read; “The 2021 Nigerian Universities ranking by the National Universities Commission rated the University of Ibadan, Redeemer’s University and Covenant University as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd position, respectively. It should be noted that this is the first time NUC is ranking universities in Nigeria since its establishment in 1962.
“The ranking was done under the auspices of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Strategy Advisory Committee (STRADVCOM) set up as one of the several projects of Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission.’
‘Pundits have long predicted its emergence as the nation’s best based on various accolades and awards that the university had won across the world in the last few years. These awards and accolades were early indicators that the university is carrying the seed of greatness.
“The lack of noise around its numerous achievements are sometimes mistaken for weakness but people with hindsight know that its founding proprietors cherish making statements through ground-breaking contributions to human development. Someone once described Redeemer’s University as “a small car with an aircraft engine.”
“The announcement of Redeemer’s University, multiple award-winning institutions on Monday, December 13, 2021, by the National Universities Commission, as the second overall best university in the country is both a testament and endorsement of its rising profile as an ivy-university.
The statement further quoted Professor Anthony Akinlo to have eulogised the university’s proprietors for its visionary drive to configure it as a university of global preeminence that will change the world for God through its impact on human development.
He said that the announcement is an industry acknowledgement of the university’ quality of programmes, research, internationalization, infrastructure, assurance system and good corporate governance, amongst others.
He appreciated the entire University’s community for their efforts towards upholding excellence in all ramifications which have made the university the toast of its stakeholders in the Nigerian higher education institutions’ space.
