The publications in referred journals of academics affiliated to the University of Port Harcourt are as published on our website and includes 1,113 Publications in 2021 and 947 publications in 2022.

Google scholar citations of Uniport researchers can be found here.

Locally organized conferences are held on regular basis. In addition, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) provides access to a wide range of resources to facilitate intra and international conferences geared towards the achievement of research ambitions. The number of conferences conducted in the University in 2021 and 2022 is available here.

Number of patents and copyrights filed by the University. Please follow the links for awards and patents here, and grants won here.

The University employs post-doc fellows in the Institute of Petroleum Studies and by the Aret Adams Chair of Petroleum Engineering. In addition, in the past year we placed 2 post-doc fellows at the Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and another 8 in several institutions in Brazil through the Fara/TETFUND partnership.

Although the School of Graduate Studies commenced graduate studies in the 1979/1980 academic session, it was formally established in October 1982. Graduate studies take place in the Faculties of Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Education, Engineering, Management Sciences, Agriculture, Law, the College of Health Sciences and the Research Centres and Institutes.

In the 2020/2021 session, the School of Graduate Studies produced 367 Postgraduate Diplomas, 999 MScs and 232 PhDs, total of 1,598 Postgraduates. In the 2021/2022 session, it produced 399 PGDs, 886 MScs and 227 PhDs, a total of 1,515 postgraduates.

The University of Port Harcourt welcomes well-meaning personalities ready to contribute their quota to quality education either through research funding, promoting already published works, awarding scholarships to students and even improving, reconstructing and or constructing projects within the university.

In the year under review, two philanthropists, Richard Nyong and Sir Daniel Chukwudozie awarded scholarships to about 230 indigents and best second year students of the University of Port Harcourt. The recipients drawn across the various Faculties and College, were awarded the scholarship based on merit using their first-year cumulative grade point average (CGPA).

Richard Nyong, is a graduate of Economics from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria with a Doctorate in real estate from the European American University in Ghana and a DSc (honoris causa) from the University of Port Harcourt. Nyong boasts of over a decade’s experience in the African Real Estate industry beginning from consulting and advisory to land sales, to finally property development sales, and management under Lekki Gardens Estate Limited, a brand he established in 2011 which he plans to take public within the next few years.

In 2022, two hundred (200) indigent and best second year students of the University of Port Harcourt smiled to the banks as they benefitted from the magnanimity of Richard Nyong.

The second benefactor, Sir Daniel Chukwudozie also referred to as DOZZY awarded scholarships to thirty (30) students using the same evaluation scale as the Richard Nyong scholarship.

Sir Daniel Chukwudozie, Founder and Group Managing Director of Dozzy Groups with over 4 decades of vast entrepreneurial experience, holds a BSc in Business Administration, an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Science from the University of Calabar, Cross River State and a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from the University of Port Harcourt.

Sir Chukwudozie, though started off as an apprentice has shown tenacity in his ability to propel his visionary quest (Dozzy Group), into what today constitutes a well-integrated indigenous conglomerate with strong interest in manufacturing, Oil and gas, Real Estate, Logistics, Hospitality and commerce amongst others.

We have noticed that the most cited papers from our research community are the result of collaborative efforts that have enabled quality research. On account of the pressures induced by “publish or perish” and the need by graduate students to meet deadlines for project defence, our researchers continue to patronize predator journals. Unfortunately, most ranking bodies judge research output from universities by using papers found in indexing bodies such as SCOPUS.

We need to get our research community to see research as an enterprise and themselves as academic entrepreneurs. Their efforts should be aimed at solving a problem such that they and our immediate community are rewarded by the outcome of such research. I acknowledge that such quality research is difficult if not impossible without adequate funding and that is why we are advocating that every PhD student should apply for a grant. Researchers the world over are judged by how much grants they are able to attract. We need to imbibe this culture to grow the fortunes of our university.

The future is bright, especially, as there is a great promise of our university being able to make available and harness cutting-edge technology to make innovative research possible in the very near future, and to enrich education and learning.