The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has ranked Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo, as the best in the country.
Masa’udu Kazaure, executive secretary of the board, made this known in Kaduna on Thursday.
Kazaure said the polytechnic emerged the best after scoring 85.08 per cent in the assessment of 112 federal, state and private polytechnics in the country.
He said the exercise covered the 2015/2016 and 206/2017 academic sessions.
Kazaure said the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro came second with 73.08 per cent while Kaduna Polytechnic came third with 72.31 per cent.
Other polytechnics in the top 10 include The Polytechnic Ibadan, ranked fourth; Federal Polytechnic Bida is fifth while Auchi Polytechnic is ranked sixth.
Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, is seventh while Federal Polytechnic Offa, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic and Yaba College of Technology jointly occupy the eighth position.
Federal Poly Oko was ranked 11th while Federal Poly, Idah, is 12th best in Nigeria.
The NBTE boss said when disaggregated by ownership, Federal Poly Nekede also emerged the best federal polytechnic in the country followed by Federal Poly Ilaro and Kaduna Poly.
“The Polytechnic Ibadan, IMT and Rufus Giwa polytechnics were the highest ranked among state polytechnics, while Lagos City Polytechnic is the highest ranked private polytechnic and the 16th in the country,” he said.
“Dorben Polytechnic and Heritage Polytechnic were the second and third best private polytechnic in the country.”
Kazaure explained that the polytechnics were ranked based on the total number of programmes with full accreditation in the last two years and the percentage of programmes with full accreditation.
He said: “Other criteria include a proportion of academic staff showing the right mix, that is, chief lecturer and principal lecturer down to assistant lecturer; and the ability of the institution to introduce the programme in new and emerging fields.
“They were equally assessed based on the capacity building of staff both within and outside Nigeria, teaching quality, including staff /student ratio and a ratio of full-time to part-time staff.
“Other areas are the availability of the current campus master plan, strategic plan, and academic brief; percentage of academic staff with relevant higher qualification and professional registration; and 70:30 technology-non-technology enrolment ratio.
“Another consideration was the incorporation of entrepreneurship education into the institute’s curriculum and fully established Entrepreneurship Development Centre.”
