The University has been ranked 4th position among institutions in Nigeria and 51st position in Africa in the January 2016 edition of Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which was conducted by Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to Cosejo Superior de Investigacoues Cientifcas (CSIC) of Spain. FUNAAB came 4th position behind leading Nigerian universities such as the University of Ibadan, Ibadan; Covenant University, Ota; and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; while beating other First and Second Generation universities such as the University of Lagos, Lagos; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; and University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt.
The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities", an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, is the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organisations in Europe. It is affiliated to Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education and its main objective is to promote scientific research in order to improve the progress of scientific and technological levels in countries with the intention to increase the welfare of the citizens.
CSIC also plays an important role in the formation of new researchers and technicians in the different aspects of science and technology. The organisation collaborates with other institutions of the Spanish Research and Development (R&D) system such as universities, autonomous governments, other public and private research organisations in the social, economic, national or foreign platforms.
The criteria used to rank the Universities bordered on the development of indicators about resources in the society, indicators and social networks visualization on Website with friendly, dynamic and interactive graphic interfaces, design and evaluation of documented analysis techniques of Web resources, genre studies applied to the scholar activity on Website, development of applied cybermetrics techniques based on the positioning on search engines of Web domains; and the analysis of the information usage through Website and data mining of log files, among others.
