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KAMPALA – Makerere College, Uganda’s premier establishment of upper studying, has been ranked sixteenth on the continent within the new difficulty of college rankings launched Wednesday by Webometrics also called the Rating Net.
The brand new rankings place Makerere one place above Kenya’s College of Nairobi, thus making them the one universities from the East African bloc showing within the prime 50 on the African continent.
On the worldwide degree, Makerere College and College of Nairobi stand in 1043rd and 1045 respectively.
Makerere’s place on this launch marks a big enchancment as in comparison with the earlier rankings, the place the establishment was positioned nineteenth on the continent and 1088th on the worldwide degree. This enchancment has been attributed to the impression of analysis actions on addressing group challenges.
In the identical rankings, the privately owned and Ugandan-based establishment, Kampala Worldwide College takes the second place in Uganda, 56th in Africa and 2137th on the planet.
Mbarara College of Science and Know-how, Kyambogo College and Gulu College comply with in third, 4th and fifth positions respectively on the nationwide degree.
Inclined on the pillars of impression, openness and excellence of universities worldwide, Webometrics is the biggest tutorial rating of Increased Training Establishments providing each six months an impartial, goal, free, open scientific train for offering dependable, multidimensional, up to date and helpful details about the efficiency of universities from everywhere in the world.
The Webometrics survey evaluated about 12,000 universities across the globe.
Prime Universities (East Africa)
Makerere College
College of Nairobi
College of Dar es Salaam
Kampala Worldwide College
Jomo Kenyatta College of Agriculture and Know-how
Sokoine College of Agriculture
Moi College
Egerton College
Mbarara College of Science and Know-how
Prime Universities (Africa)
College of Cape City
College of the Witwatersrand
Stellenbosch College
College of Pretoria
Cairo College
College of Johannesburg
Prime Universities (worldwide)
Harvard College
Stanford College
Massachusetts Institute of Know-how
College of Oxford
College of California, Berkeley
College of Michigan
Cornell College
