The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been ranked in the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by Subject. The ranking was announced by THE on Wednesday, October 28, 2020.
According to the rankings, UNILAG ranked 301-400 in Clinical and Health, 601+ in Social Sciences, 1001+ in Engineering and 1001+ in Physical Sciences.
THE World University Rankings by subject is an annual ranking that gives an overview of the best places in the world to study a chosen discipline. It covers 11 subject areas which include, Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Clinical and Health, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
The subject rankings were conducted based on criteria such as number of publications in 11 subject areas in the last 5 years, staff to student ratio, citations in the 11 subject areas, number of co-authorship, research income per academic staff, among others.