Nigeria, June 26 -- For the third time in a row, no Nigerian university has made it into the top 1000 in the 2026 universities ranking by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University, a British higher education analytics firm.

The latest edition, released on 19 June, which assessed 1,501 institutions across 106 countries, highlighted the underwhelming global standing of Nigerian universities.

Only three of Nigeria's 297 universities made the QS Rankings this year. They are University of Ibadan (UI), the University of Lagos (UNILAG), and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

Both UI and UNILAG were placed in the 1001-1200 category, the same range as in the 2025 ranking. While ABU, which had no recorded position last year, appeared in ...