THE TIMES Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-16 have been released and this year only Nigerian university and 13 other African universities made the list.
This year, the rankings were more comprehensive than ever. It covered 800 institutions from 70 different countries, compared with 41 countries that made last year’s top 400.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 list the best global universities and are the only international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
In total six universities from South Africa featured in the top 800, three of them making it into the top 400. Coming in tops for Africa as a whole was the University of Cape Town (120) followed by the University of the Witwatersrand (201 – 250), Stellenbosch University (301 – 350), University of KwaZulu Natal (401 – 500), University of Pretoria (501 – 600) and the University of South Africa.
Other sub-Saharan institutions include; The University of Ghana (601 – 800), University of Nairobi (601 – 800), University of Ibadan in Nigeria (601 – 800) and Uganda’s Makerere University (401 – 500)
North Africa had some representation too. There were three Egyptian institutions; Alexandria University (601 – 800), Cairo University (601 – 800) and the Suez Canal University (601 – 800). From Morocco there was the University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad (601 – 800).