Nigerian Universities With Most Employable Graduates 2018

A list of Nigerian Universities with most Employable Graduates was released by Stutern, a Lagos-based startup and an online platform that carries out studies on employment in Nigeria and Nigerian universities. They also recruit interns for companies.

In its 2017 edition of ‘The Nigerian Graduate Report’ publication ranked Covenant University number one and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta number two in the list of Nigerian universities (both private and public) with the Most Employable Graduates.

The 2018 report has now been released by Stutern and Covenant University remains at the top.

Nigerian Universities With Most Employable Graduates for 2018

According to the report by Stutern, Covenant University comes in first place, with 83.70% employability rate. Find the complete list below with their employability rate;

1. Covenant University Ota – 83.70%

2. University of Nigeria, Nsukka – 68.18%

3. University of Ibadan– 61.76%

4. Federal University of Technology, Minna – 60.61%

5. University of Ilorin – 60.22%

6. Bowen University – 60.00%

7. Obafemi Awolowo University – 59.30%

8. University of Benin – 58.51%

9. Lagos State University – 58.49%

10. University of Lagos – 58.13%

11. Federal University of Technology, Owerri – 56.82%

12. Babcock University – 52.70%

13. Federal University of Technology, Akure – 51.72%

14. Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba – 51.22%

15. Olabisi Onabanjo University – 50.00%

16. Nnamdi Azikiwe University – 50.00%

17. University of Agriculture (Which one???) – 48.08%

18. Ekiti State University – 39.34%

19. University of Port-Harcourt – 37.93%

20. Ahmadu Bello University – 37.50%

For the second time in a row, Covenant University have the most employed graduates rate in Nigeria. 13 federal universities, 4 state universities and 3 private universities made the top 20 list.

ALSO SEE: Times Higher Education Ranking of Universities in Nigeria 2019