Every student is always biased about the general standing of his school. He believes that the intellectual and economic well being of his society depends on the competitive and thriving ability of his school, because he believes that his school produces the best brains behind the economic development of his country and as such, makes boast of his school anywhere he finds himself. This was my situation, until I decided to analyse the yardsticks used in accessing university performance in the international arena. I was so full of myself that no matter the criteria used, UNILAG would be among the first 500 schools in the world. To my utmost dismay, UNILAG was not even on a good standing among the top 100 (One Hundred) Universities in Africa, let alone the first 7,000 (Seven Thousand) Universities in the world. In fact, no Nigerian University made it to the top 50 (Fifty) and 6,000 (Six Thousand) in Africa and the World respectively as at January, 2006. I said within my thoughts “it can never be how could UNILAG have such a bad standing? This is a biased opinion of the people doing the ranking, until I went through the ranking criteria myself.” Would you blame me? After all, who would say that his mummy’s soup is not sweet?
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