Enhanced Webometric Ranking of Nigerian Public Universities

Abstract

Webometric Ranking of Universities provides a way to evaluate these institutions based on their  web content and presence. Such an endeavour motivates institutions on improving the presence of their academic activities on their websites to help publicize their various achievements. Previous works emphasized on the objective features of Universities that do not sufficiently give account of the activities of Universities. In this paper, an enhanced Webometric System that incorporates subjective features is proposed for ranking Federal Universities in Nigeria. The features are: social media presence, existence of beneficiary programs to the Government and educational impact programs on the society. The accuracy level of the proposed system as measured with Spearman Rank Correlation, showed a significant impact level of the ranking metrics introduced. A social acceptance survey was conducted with the aid of questionnaires on the proposed model and it had above 70% acceptance.