{UAH} Pojim/WBK: UoN tops university rankings in Kenya, MKU up to 8th position | The Star

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UoN tops university rankings in Kenya, MKU up to 8th position

The University of Nairobi is the best in Kenya, according to the just-released ranking of world universities byWebometrics.

The site ranked UoN 7th in Africa and 855 in the world.

In East Africa, UoN beat Uganda's Makerere University (position 13), the University of Dar es Salaam (37), Kenyatta University (38) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (44).

The performance is the best result posted by any local university since the advent of web ranking in 2004.

Among private institutions, Mt Kenya University improved from last year's position 10 to 8.

This means MKU is the third best private university in Kenya after Strathmore and Africa Virtual University.

"Our concerted efforts at improving access to e-learning and sharing information through electronic formats are continuously bearing fruit," said MKU vice chancellor Stanley Waudo.

"This impressive ranking accentuates our other successes on the ICT front."

Two previous rankings placed the university at positions 12 and 20 nationally and fourth among private universities.

KCA University and Maseno close the top 10 rankings.

Kabarak, United States International University, Catholic University, Kenya Methodist and Daystar are ranked position 11 to 15 respectively.

In the July 2014 ranking, the university was first in East Africa and 9th in Africa and 907 worldwide.

Overall in Africa, University of Cape Town leads in the ranking followed by the Stellenbosch University and Cairo University.

The first position worldwide went to Harvard University.

More than 25,000 institutions of higher learning were analysed in the ranking.

Top 10 world universities

1. Harvard University

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3. Stanford University

4. University of California Berkeley

5. Cornell University

6. University of Michigan

7. University of Minnesota

8. University of Washington

9. University of Pennsylvania

10. Columbia University New York

Top 20 universities in Africa

1. University of Cape Town

2. Stellenbosch University

3. Cairo University

4. University of Pretoria

5. University of the Witwatersrand

6. University of Kwazulu Natal

7. University of Nairobi

8. University of the Western Cape

9. American University in Cairo

10.University of South Africa

11.Mansoura University

12.University of Johannesburg

13.Makerere University

14.Rhodes University

15.Covenant University Ota

16.Benha University

17.Alexandria University

18.North West University

19.University of Ghana

20.Université Djillali Liabes

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