It
seems that competition will only exist between themselves for the
foreseeable future with eight of them making it within the top ten. It
is worth pointing out that only five African universities feature in any
of the major international rankings and four of these are in South
Africa, Cairo University being the fifth. They also occupy positions in
the lower regions of the charts. Still, rankings have an impact on
Africa’s strongest research universities’ ability to attract more
resources, the brightest students and best staff. One must thus ask
whether these rankings are of any interest at all to most African
universities. Yes, they are—because the continent’s lower-profile
universities are the main source of human resources in their regions. It
is therefore necessary to monitor the quality of research staff engaged
in (science-based) teaching and training programmes. Nigerian
universities on the other hand have not lived up to expectations and
they have noticeably slipped from the top fifty universities
Fostering
cutting-edge research is not on the agenda for most African
universities struggling to cope with more urgent needs like curbing the
brain drain, replacing run-down research infrastructures, raising
salaries and providing education and training to meet immediate local
needs. Where research funding is marginal or non-existent, international
cooperation and contributing to global science is clearly of much
lesser importance.
1 University of Cape Town
2 Rhodes University
3 Stellenbosch University
4 University of Pretoria
5 University of The Witwatersrand
6 University of The Western Cape
7 University of South Africa
8 University of Kwazulu Natal
9 American University In Cairo
10 Universite De La Reunion
11 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
12 University of The Free State
13 Cairo University
14 Universite Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar
15 University of Zimbabwe
16 Universite Abdelmalek Essadi
17 Institut Universitaire De Formation Des Maitres De La Reunion
18 University of Mauritius
19 University of Johannesburg
20 Universite Cadi Ayyad
21 Strathmore University Nairobi
22 University of Dar Es Salaam
23 University of Namibia
24 Polytechnic of Namibia
25 University of Nairobi
26 Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
27 Arab Academy For Science & Technology And Maritime Transport
28 Ain Shams University
29 Ecole Mohammadia D'ingenieurs
30 Al Akhawayn University Ifrane
31 Mansoura University
32 Addis Ababa University
33 Egerton University
34 Institut Agronomique Et Veterinaire Hassan Ii
35 North West University
36 Universite Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen
37 Universite De Ouagadougou
38 German University In Cairo
39 Tshwane University Of Technology
40 University of Botswana
41 Zagazig University
42 University of Benin
43 Universite De Batna
44 National University of Rwanda
45 Cape Peninsula University of Technology
46 University of Khartoum
47 Makerere University
48 Mogadishu University
49 University of Fort Hare
50 Ecole Superieure Privee D'ingenierie Et De Technologies
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