Here Are The Top Universities In South Africa

The Center for World University Rankings has listed the top universities in the world, including the leading universities in South Africa. Here are the top universities in South Africa. 

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) assessed 19 788 institutions worldwide, and the institutions that were placed at the top made the Global 2 000 lists. The latest edition of the Global 2000 list was published on Tuesday, 26 April 2022.

12 South African universities made this list, and according to the list, these universities would be ranked in South Africa as follows: 

1. University of Cape Town (UCT)
2. Wits
3. Stellenbosch University (SU)
4. University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
5. University of Pretoria (UP)
6. University of Johannesburg (UJ)
7. North-West University
8. University of the Free State (UFS)
9. University of the Western Cape (UWC)
10. Unisa
11. Rhodes University
12. Nelson Mandela University (NMU)

UCT, Wits, SU and UKZN ranked in the top 500 universities in the world.

According to the Center for World University Rankings, the following South African universities rank as follows:

1. University of Cape Town: #270
2. Wits: #292
3. Stellenbosch University: #441
4. UKZN: #484
5. University of Pretoria: #555
6. University of Johannesburg: #629
7. North-West University: #880
8. University of the Western Cape: #1186
9. University of the Free State: #1226
10. Unisa: #1302
11. Rhodes University: #1304
12. Nelson Mandela University: #1636

South Africa has also ranked its universities in the following way:

According to these rankings, UCT is also the best university on the African continent for 2022/23.

CWUR ranked institutions using seven indicators grouped into four areas: Education: this is measured by the number of alumni who have won significant academic distinctions relative to the university’s size.

• Employability: This is measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held top executive positions at the world’s largest companies relative to the university’s size.
• Faculty: this is measured by the number of faculty members who have won significant academic distinctions.
• Research: made up of Research output is measured by the total number of research articles.

High-quality publications are measured by the number of research articles appearing in top-tier journals.
Influence is measured by the number of research articles in highly influential journals.
Citations are measured by the number of highly cited research articles.