In 2019, there were 11.9 thousand professors working at Nigerian universities. Female professors were 1.8 thousand, while male professors added up to 10.1 thousand. That year, 1.8 million full-time undergraduate students and 121 thousand full-time master students were enrolled in Nigeria.
Nigeria's largest university is the National Open University of Nigeria, which had almost half million students as of 2017. The University of Lagos ranked that year as Nigeria's second largest university in terms of enrollment.
Number of university professors in Nigeria as of 2019, by gender
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National Universities Commission. (September 8, 2021). Number of university professors in Nigeria as of 2019, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/1130804/number-of-full-time-professors-in-nigeria/
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