339 Students Bag First Class At Covenant University

339 students of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, have bagged First-Class degrees at the institution.

Naijaonpoint learnt that the Registrar, Regina Tobi-David, disclosed this during the 19th convocation ceremony, conferment of First and Higher Degrees, and presentation of prizes in Ota.

This year’s convocation, themed “Release of Eagles for 2024,” celebrated the graduation of 1,607 students, including 1,456 undergraduates and 151 postgraduates.

While congratulating the students, Regina stated that the first class record was the first in the institution’s history.

This comes a few days after the private institution was named Nigeria’s top university in the 2024 Times Higher Education Rankings.

Meanwhile, Covenant University (CU), a prominent private institution, has been named Nigeria’s top university in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings.

Published annually, THE Rankings evaluate universities on a global scale, with the 2024 edition covering 1,907 institutions from 108 countries and regions.

Rankings are based on 18 criteria that assess teaching, research environment, research quality, industry collaboration, and international outlook.

The 2024 ranking analyzed data from over 134 million citations on 16.5 million research publications and included responses from 68,402 academics worldwide. THE collected 411,789 data points from over 2,673 universities for this analysis.

On the global stage, the UK’s University of Oxford maintained its top spot for the ninth consecutive year, making it the longest-standing leader in THE’s history, surpassing Harvard University’s eight-year record, which ended in 2011.

Stanford University moved up to second place, while Harvard dropped to fourth. The University of Cambridge also shifted to fifth after holding a joint third position in 2023.