Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State, has 339 students who graduated with First-Class degrees.
Regina Tobi-David, the Registrar, announced this at the 19th convocation ceremony, which included the conferment of First and Higher Degrees and the presentation of prizes in Ota.
This year’s convocation, themed “Release of Eagles for 2024,” celebrated the graduation of 1,607 students, comprising 1,456 undergraduates and 151 postgraduates.
Regina congratulated the students, noting that the first class record was the first in the institution’s history.
This comes just a few days after the private institution was voted Nigeria’s best 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.