OAU, UI, UNILAG MISSING AS UNIPORT IS NAMED THE 6TH BEST UNIVERSITY IN AFRICA 2015.

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.”

FULL LIST OF TOP 30 UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA (2015): 

Rank Name                               Country                                        All publications (2009-13) Citation Score

 1                                 University of Cape Town South Africa              5540.21 99.90

 2                                 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa    4387.17 99.76

3                                 Makerere University Uganda                           1112.69 99.72

 4                                 Stellenbosch University South Africa               4357.33 95.48

 5                                 University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa         4235.09 89.41

 6                                 University of Port Harcourt Nigeria                   573.55 88.92

 7                                 University of the Western Cape South Africa    1154.77 84.61 

 8                                 University of Nairobi Kenya                             671.72 84.60

 9                                 University of Johannesburg South Africa          2192.74 83.64 

 10                               University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad Morocco   910.82 78.61

 11                               University of Pretoria South Africa                   4544.33 75.89

 12                               University of Ghana Ghana                              804.53 73.31

 13                               University of South Africa South Africa             981.67 72.51

 14                               Suez Canal University Egypt                           998.98 69.69

 15                               University of Hassan II Casablanca Morocco    960.25 69.03

 16                               Addis Ababa University Ethiopia                      893.90 64.84

 17                               Rhodes University South Africa                       1296.96 64.54

 18                               University of the Free State South Africa          1512.56 62.83

 19                               North-West University South Africa                  1707.94 60.75

 20                               University of Tunis Tunisia                               879.63 57.26

 21                               Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax Tunisia     822.31 57.24

 22                               Université Mohammed V – Agdal Morocco         1503.69 56.85

 23                               American University in Cairo Egypt                    700.89 56.40

 24                               Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University SA        885.77 53.29

 25                               South Valley University Egypt                           636.85 52.49

 26                               Alexandria University Egypt                              2550.15 52.24

 27                               Assiut University Egypt                                    1588.64 50.41

 28                               University of Sfax Tunisia                                 2355.30 49.79

 29                               University of Yaounde I Cameroon                     876.33 49.72

 30                               Minia University Egypt                                      694.79 48.36

Source: The Cable.

Wednesday, January 06, 2016