South African-based institutions topped the continental ranking with University of Cape Town taking the lead. This is closely followed by the University of Pretoria, South Africa in second position, next comes Stellenbosch University also in South.
Africa in third position. The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa comes fourth,while University of Kwazulu Natal,South Africa is fifth. The sixth position is occupied by Rhodes University,South Africa. In seventh position is University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
South-Africa dominance is challenged by the Cairo University in Egypt which is eight in ranking. This is closely followed by University of South Africa ,South Africa in nineth position, and Makerere University, Uganda in tenth position.
Of interest is Makerere University which has maintained its 10th position among Africa's best ranked 100 universities, according to the Webometrics survey. It is the only Ugandan university listed in the survey. In the survey, published on Friday, the university improved in world ranking by 146 positions from 1,402th in February to 1,256th.
Other universities in the region are University of Khartoum-Sudan (18th), University of Nairobi-Kenya (26th), University of Dar er Salam -Tanzania (38th), Kenyatta University (58th) and National University of Rwanda at 78th.The rankings, are based on web publications, 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.
Also a ranking by Turkey-based Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, put the 89-year-old Makerere University on the 8th position out of 2,500 universities surveyed in Africa in 2010.
Ms Ritah Namisango, the university public relations officer, attributed the improvement to internal efforts engaged in the recruitment of web administrators for each college who ensure that staff research is uploaded on the website. Ms Ritah Namisango said "We have continued to upload research publications and innovations of staff and students online.
We also have web administrators focused on improving the online visibility and presence of each college." Something urgent has to be done to overhaul Nigeria University system if the products of these Universities will be reckoned with in the world.
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