Ranking of African Universities and Higher Institutions (2015)

Journals Consortium is glad to release the 2015 African Universities and Higher Institutions Ranking. This maiden edition of the ranking includes 1447 African universities and other higher institutions of learning and research. The ranking is based on two factors: research publications and citations from the last five years (2010 to 2014) as well as their visibility on the internet. See methodology.

South African institution dominate the top ten with University of Cape Town topping the ranking with a Total Influence Factor (TIF) of 45.02. This is followed by Cairo University (TIF: 43.43) and the University of Pretoria (TIF: 43.35). The top ten includes six institutions from South African, two from Egypt and one each from Kenya and Nigeria.

Rank	Institution	Country		Total Influence Factor
1	University of Cape Town	South Africa		45.02
2	Cairo University	Egypt		43.43
3	University of Pretoria	South Africa		43.35
4	University of Nairobi	Kenya		42.81
5	University of South Africa	South Africa		42.32
6	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa		42.20
7	Stellenbosch University	South Africa		42.16
8	University of Ibadan	Nigeria		41.22
9	University of Kwazulu Natal	South Africa		41.13
10	Ain Shams University	Egypt		40.54

The complete ranking is freely available at http://ranking.journalsconsortium.org. You can also view the ranking at the national level for each country either by clicking of the county’s flag or name on the left menu of the website.

African universities are still not well represented in international rankings. The creation of the Journals Consortium University Rankings will help reflect the situation in the sphere of higher education in African universities as accurately and fully as possible to compare comparable educational systems and increase the recognition of African universities among students, employers, researchers and policy makers.

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