Top 10 Universities in Africa: UNIPORT sixth best

The University of Port Harcourt was named as the sixth best university in Africa, trailing four South African and one Ugandan university.

The list, which was dominated by South Africa and Egypt, saw the southern Africa country amass 12 positions on the ranking, with the north African country trailing with half a dozen schools. Morocco had three universities.

Tunisia came up with another three, while Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria had a single university in the 2015 ranking.

According to WEF, “these results are essentially based on the amount of citations there are for the university’s work”.

Quoting Times Higher Education (THE), WEF said the universities are “derived from the methodology for the current world university ranking, using the 13 factors (below), combining THE’s own enormous database of statistics along with the Elsevier’s Scopus database – a system that highlights some of the continent’s top performers in terms of how often research papers are referred to and cited by other academics globally”. “This methodology is designed for the research-led globally facing university.

Times Higher Education emphasised that not everyone in Africa will find the metrics appropriate to their mission or their strategic priorities making this ranking a starting point of a longer, inclusive conversation involving African institutions.”

List of Top 10 Universities in Africa:

1. University of Cape Town

2. University of the Witwatersrand

3. Makerere University

4. Stellenbosch University

5. University of KwaZulu-Natal

6. University of Port Harcourt

7. University of the Western Cape

8. University of Nairobi

9. University of Johannesburg

10. University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad

Source: Thecable