UoN only Kenyan university listed among the top 2,000 in the latest world ranking
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UoN only Kenyan university listed among the top 2,000 in the latest world ranking by Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)
UoN only Kenyan university listed among the top 2,000 in the latest world ranking by Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).
According to the latest rankings published by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), the University of Nairobi is the only university in Kenya ranked among the top 2,000 universities worldwide.
The leading institution in Kenya is in the top 7% of universities worldwide after being ranked 1,425th on the Global 2000 ranking for 2023.
But due to a fall in the employability of its graduates and its research output, two crucial performance measures, UoN has dropped 20 spots from last year’s rating.
The rankings are being released as the education industry undergoes significant adjustments. In an effort to pull universities out of their current financial mess, there has been an increased focus on university finance recently.
CWUR analyzed 62 million outcomes-based data points to rank universities from around the world on four factors: quality of education (25 percent), employability (25 percent), quality of faculty (10 percent), and research performance (40 percent).
These are measured without relying on surveys and data submissions from universities.
This year, 20,531 universities were ranked. UoN Vice-Chancellor Prof Stephen Kiama was delighted to hear the news.
“Obviously we’re delighted. Students at UoN are taught from new knowledge based on research. We have a huge responsibility to maintain the standards we’ve set. The others [universities] know where to go,” he told Nation.
The CWUR president, however, sounded an alarm over the performance of Kenyan universities.
“It is alarming to see only one Kenyan university in the rankings. Funding to further promote the development and reputation of Kenya’s higher education system is vital if the country is to be more competitive on the global stage,” he said.
The UoN’s employability rank slipped from 1,553 in the world last year to 1,610 this year, while its research performance fell from 1,348 last year to 1,365 this year. Its overall score was 68.2 out of 100.
“Efforts must be made to ensure that Kenya attracts top academics and students, that the increase in university enrolments is matched by an increase in a teaching capacity, and that expenditure on tertiary education as a percentage of national GDP increases steadily in the coming years”.
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The top 10 is dominated by universities from the US, with 332 institutions in the list. For the twelfth year running, Harvard is the world’s top university with a perfect score of 100 percent.
It is followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, while the UK’s Cambridge and Oxford (ranked fourth and fifth respectively) are the only non-US universities in the top ten.
The others are Princeton, Chicago, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale. In Africa, the top ten universities are Cape Town (267th), Witwatersrand (290th), Stellenbosch (450th), KwaZulu-Natal (478th), Cairo (520th), Pretoria (557th), Johannesburg (628th), Ain Shams (772nd), Addis Ababa (862nd) and North-West (887th).
However, 262 American universities have fallen in the rankings due to increased global competition from well-funded institutions, particularly from China, which has 314 institutions on the list. 96 percent of Chinese universities ranked higher than last year.
The top ten universities in Europe this year are: Cambridge (UK, 4th), Oxford (UK, 5th), University College of London (UK, 19th), PSL (France, 21st), Imperial College (UK, 29th), ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 30th), Paris Saclay (France, 32nd), Copenhagen (Denmark, 35th), Karolinska Institute (Sweden, 38th) and Paris City University (France, 39th).
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