Not even one Nigerian university made the list of the top 7 universities in Africa and while this will not come as a surprise to many people, it is quite sad.

This new listing released by way of QS has little or no surprises with the University of Cape town, at the pinnacle and at rank 191 in the world ranking of universities.

Stellenbosch University is the second best university in Africa and ranks at number 361 in the world, while the American University in Cairo is at number 4 in Africa.

The ranking by QS is based on factors such as academic reputation, citations per faculty, employer reputation and other factors. Below is the list of the 7 top universities in Africa:

1. University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

2. Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in South Africa.

Stellenbosch is jointly the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa alongside the University of Cape Town which received full university status on the same day in 1918.

3. University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus SouthAfrican public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University.

4. The American University in Cairo
The American University in Cairo is an independent, English language, research university located in Cairo, Egypt.

5. Cairo University
Cairo University is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo.

6. University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa.

7. University of Johannesburg
The University of Johannesburg, known colloquially as UJ is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University.

The University of Chicago improved to the ninth position while Princeton University did not make the new top 10 list.


Source: http://www.thistrend.com.ng/2017/06/list-of-top-7-universities-in-africa.html?m=1

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Where's U.I?

Benitogucci:
Where's U.I?

Nor be only UI.
who dash monkey banana.
Top universities like this can only exist in serious countries, not in a Joke like Nigeria.

Before nko?
na top twenty u go fe see naija unis(just one uni sha)

Na lie what of federal university of science and technology SAMBISA FOREST ?

Benitogucci:
Where's U.I?

It's in Ibadan.

Even if they rig the rating, UI won't be there.

I'm not surprised
Government chopping all d funds, plus masses wei suppose do their part in whatever way they can develop the country spend all day engaging in tribal wars on social media

Covenant university may breakthrough if they continue.




You see? Blacks, we are blacks; nothing more. Apartheid is paying off afterall

south Africa making almost all the list entirely

Benitogucci:
Where's U.I?

you joke too much....

u mean niaja no follow ?

ubongokon:
u mean niaja no follow ?

I wonder oh

I'm not being pessimistic, but truth be told that the current rating of Nigerian universities can only get worse. Not until we stop playing politics with everything in Nigeria will we be able to parade world class universities.

In South Africa for instance, there are flagship universities (e.g. Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Pretoria ) which the nation parades when it comes to global ratings. However, not all their universities are better than our best universities. How many of us know that while the UK is a hotspot for university education and the nation parades many world class universities, there are still some universities over there which by global rating are lower than our first generation universities? What stops Nigeria from picking the five first generation universities for instance as our flagship and massively fund them so that our nation can also be an hotspot for university education in Africa? But if that would ever happen, it would be politicized with geo-political zoning by the 'owners of Nigeria' since the very best universities in Nigeria are all in the south save the Ahmadu Bello University.

Like someone opined above, i can only hope that Covenant University keeps up their current standard and pace so that one Nigerian university makes one of the best three in a distant future.

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top 20 nko?

Nigeria is the giant of Africa

So, no university made the list from the so called giant of Africa..... Issokay

ok

AdeizaPaul:
top 20 nko?

Top 50 sef, e no go still dey

K

No Nigerian university?

Big shame on this country. Meanwhile, we are the most populous in the continent. Nigerians (both politicians and regular citizens) will rather school abroad than develop their own unis.

And we are supposedly​ the Giant of Africa!

when my friend from witswatersrand visited a university here, he thought it was a farm

South Africa is the real developed african country, Naija na just noise

No standard Town, no Standard University, Everything just mediocre

even the so called VGC is a swamp


Naija sha, i don tire

Where is Benue State Uni?

Abraka no join?

U

Benitogucci:
Where's U.I?

U.I ko I.U ni

Fake stuff

even our Almighty covenant university is not there.

Yet some pple would engage in public private uni beef. When both are crap anyways

The South Africans y'all spend time insulting are the ones topping the charts
hehehe