The Monitor (Kampala)

East Africa: Makerere University Goes Top in the Region

By Peter Nyanzi, 12 February 2010

Kampala — Makerere has overtaken Dar es Salaam to become the highest-ranked university on research publications in East Africa.

The rankings, published under the Webometrics Survey, are based on the visibility of a university on the Internet, the volume of its publications, and the general impact of the information published on its web pages.

In the latest rankings, Makerere is at number 15, up from number 59 two years ago, among the top 100 African universities.

Global improvement

Globally, it is ranked 2,685 among 8,000 universities, up from 3,811 in the previous ranking.

A total of 500 African universities were ranked.

Makerere is the only Ugandan university that is ranked in the 8,000, both on the continent and globally.

All the 14 African universities ahead of Makerere are either in South Africa or in Egypt.

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  • dbaryamushanga
    Feb 18 2010, 00:19
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    this shows the competence of a young professor, our vice chancellor venancius baryaureeba's ingenuity to transform makerere into a center of learning than ever before.hope in the next two years of his great rule,we shal emerge to be the first in africa