What are the most popular Universities in Africa? uniRank tries to answer this question by publishing the 2020 African University Ranking of the top 200 recognized higher-education institutions in Africa meeting the following uniRank selection criteria:
- being chartered, licensed and/or accredited by the appropriate higher education-related organization in each country
- offering at least four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor degrees) or postgraduate degrees (master or doctoral degrees)
- delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, face-to-face, non-distance education format
Our aim is to provide a non-academic League Table of the top Universities in Africa based on valid, unbiased and non-influence able web metrics provided by independent web intelligence sources rather than data submitted by the Universities themselves.
| QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2021 – TOP UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA | |||
| AFRICA RANK | GLOBAL RANK | UNIVERSITY | LOCATION |
| 1 | 220 | UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 2 | 403 | UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 3 | 411 | THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO | EGYPT |
| 4 | 439 | UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 5 | 456 | STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 6 | 561-570 | CAIRO UNIVERSITY | EGYPT |
| 7 | 561-570 | UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 8 | 801-1000 | AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY | EGYPT |
| 9 | 801-1000 | ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY | EGYPT |
| 10 | 801-1000 | RHODES UNIVERSITY | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 11 | 801-1000 | UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL | SOUTH AFRICA |
| 12 | // | ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITIES | ETHOPIA |
| 13 | // | THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO | EGYPT |
| 14 | //
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UNIVERSITY OF GHANA | GHANA |
| 15 | // | THE GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO | EGYPT |
| 16 | // | KENYATTA UNIVERSITY | KENYA |
| 17 | //
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RHODES UNIVERSITY | ZAMBIA |
| 18 | // | MANSOURA UNIVERSITY | EGYPT |
| 19 | // | UNIVERSITIES VAN DE VRYSTAAT | ZAMBIA |
| 20 | // | MAKERERE UNIVERSITY | UGANDA |
