No higher institution of learning in Africa’s most populous country was listed in the top 10 rankings of universities in 2024, a recent data from EduRank shows.
EduRank, a top source for social media analytics in the education sector, has published the list of its top 10 universities in Africa for 2024.
According to the information on the organisation’s website, the ratings of the best universities in Africa were based on research outputs, non-academic prominence, and alumni influence.
It added that the rankings are determined after it analysed 24.5 million citations received by 2.16 million academic publications made by 1,104 universities from Africa.
The top-ranked Nigerian institution is the University of Ibadan (UI), which is ranked 13 in Africa and1057 in the world. The University of Lagos (UNILAG) emerged 23 in Africa and 1,431 globally.
The best university in Africa according to the ranking released by EduRank is the University of Cape Town.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) was founded in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for boys. The college had a small tertiary-education facility that grew substantially after 1880.
Second on the list is the University of the Witwatersrand also from South Africa.
The University of Witwatersrand is situated in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its history is linked to mining, political and civic activism, and the development of Johannesburg.
The University of Stellenbosch or better still Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa is third on the list.
It is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the earliest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa, together with the UCT – which received full university status on the same day in 1918.
