UniRank, the international higher education directory reviewing accredited Universities and Colleges in the world, recently provided its 2017 top 200 best African universities.
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In this 2017 ranking, South African Universities are at the top, followed by Kenya’s University of Nairobi and Egypt (The American University in Cairo).
First francophone University is Reunion’s Université de la Reunion, followed by Université Cheikh Anta Diop of Senegal.
Here are Africa’s the top 30 universities for 2017:
1. University of Cape Town– South Africa
2. University of South Africa– South Africa
3. University of Pretoria– South Africa
4. University of Witwatersrandza– South Africa
5. Univeristeit Stellenbosch– South Africa
6. University of KwaZulu-Natal– South Africa
7. University of Johannesburg– South Africa
8. University of Nairobi– Kenya
9. The American University in Cairo– Egypt
10. University of the Western Cape– South Africa
11. Rhodes University– South Africa
12. Cairo University – Egypt
13. North-West University-South Africa
14. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University-South Africa
15. Universiteit van die Vrystaat– South Africa
16. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane– Mozambique
17. Makerere University– Uganda
18. University of Ibadan-Nigeria
19. Cape Peninsula University of Technology– South Africa
20. Mansoura University– Egypt
21. University of Ghana– Ghana
22. Kenyatta University– Kenya
23. Université de la Reunion– Reunion
24. Université Cheikh Anta Diop– Senegal
25. Egerton University– Kenya
26. Moi University-Kenya
27. Durban University of Technology– South Africa
28. University of Dar es Salaam– Tanzania
29. University of Lagos-Nigeria
30. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology– Ghana
Source: uniRank (www.4icu.org)