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Makerere drops as KIU rises in latest global university rankings

KIU ranked 46th best university in Africa

Gilbert Akampa Kakurugu by Gilbert Akampa Kakurugu
January 30, 2024
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New global university rankings have placed Kampala International University (KIU) in the 46th position in Africa rising from the 61st position in August last year.

According to the January 2024, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, KIU maintained its position as the leading private university and over all the second best University in Uganda after Makerere University.

The rankings are based on excellence, openness and impact. The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of cybermetrics lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

Makerere Drops
Makerere University dropped two places in ranking to 19th position in Africa from 17th, as of August 2023.

Despite the drops in continental rankings, Makerere maintained its 1st position as the best University in Uganda.

Following in line is Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in the 3rd position, Kyambogo University and Gulu University follow in the 4th and 5th positions, respectively.

Top Five Universities in Africa
According to the rankings, these are the top five African Universities.
University of Cape Town, South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Alexandria University, Egypt

Top five Universities in the world
According to the new rankings, below are the top universities top universities in the world.
Harvard University, USA
Stanford University, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
University of Oxford, UK
University of Michigan, USA

Methodology

  • The Ranking Web is not a ranking of the websites of Universities, it is a Ranking of Universities. It uses both webometric (all missions) and bibliometric (research mission) indicators

* The primary objective of the Ranking Web is to promote Open Access to the knowledge generated by the University. Best strategy to improve your rank is to increase quantity and quality of your webcontents

* Ranking Web started in 2004 (current is the 20th year of publication) with the aim of offer full coverage of Higher Education Institutons whatever the country or discipline involve. Currently we ranked 31 000 HEIs from more than 200 countries

Makerere University in 2017
  • Editors of the Ranking Web are scientists working at one world-class public research institution with long experience in metrics-guided evaluation

* The Ranking Web or Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions offering every six months an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise for providing reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world.

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