2015 Ranking for African Universities and Higher Institutions – Africa’s Top 50 – UI is Nigeria’s Best.

We bring you the latest ranking of African universities and higher institutions conducted by Journals Consortium on 1,447 higher institutions.

This ranking is based on research publications and citations from the last five years (2010 to 2014) as well as visibility on the internet. 

In Africa, UI was the eight best university, in a ranking largely dominated by South African institutions which occupied six of the first best 10 institutions.

The top 10 include six institutions from South Africa, two from Egypt and one each from Kenya and Nigeria (University of Ibadan).

University of Ibadan came eighth and first in Nigeria, followed by:

University of Nigeria (13th), Ahmadu Bello University (18th),

University of Lagos (UNILAG-20th),

Obafemi Awolowo University (24th),

University of Ilorin (31st),

University of Port Harcourt (36th),

Nnamdi Azikiwe University (42nd),

University of Calabar (43rd),

Federal University of Technology (FUTA, 49th) and

Covenant University (53rd).

Rank	Institution	Country		Total Influence Factor
1	University of Cape Town	South Africa		45.02
2	Cairo University	Egypt		43.43
3	University of Pretoria	South Africa		43.35
4	University of Nairobi	Kenya		42.81
5	University of South Africa	South Africa		42.32
6	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa		42.20
7	Stellenbosch University	South Africa		42.16
8	University of Ibadan	Nigeria		41.22
9	University of Kwazulu Natal	South Africa		41.13
10	Ain Shams University	Egypt		40.54
11	University of Johannesburg	South Africa		40.05
12	Makerere University	Uganda		40.03
13	University of Nigeria	Nigeria		39.96
14	University of Ghana	Ghana		37.83
15	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia		36.13
16	Rhodes University	South Africa		35.85
17	Alexandria University	Egypt		35.62
18	Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria		35.57
19	University of the Western Cape	South Africa		34.82
20	University of Lagos	Nigeria		34.48
21	Al-Azhar University	Egypt		34.38
22	University of the Free State	South Africa		34.06
23	Mansoura University	Egypt		33.88
24	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria		33.85
25	American University in Cairo	Egypt		33.64
26	North West University	South Africa		33.24
27	University of Benin	Nigeria		32.96
28	Kenyatta University	Kenya		32.05
29	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Ghana		31.58
30	Zagazig University	Egypt		31.56
31	University of Ilorin	Nigeria		31.27
32	Assiut University	Egypt		30.74
33	Universite d'Alger	Algeria		29.63
34	University of Khartoum	Sudan		29.58
35	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe		29.47
36	University of Port Harcourt	Nigeria		29.24
37	University of Botswana	Botswana		28.72
38	University of Zambia	Zambia		28.39
39	University of Dar Es Salaam	Tanzania		28.10
40	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	South Africa		27.69
41	Suez Canal University	Egypt		26.69
42	Nnamdi Azikiwe University	Nigeria		26.53
43	University of Calabar	Nigeria		26.52
44	Universite Mohammed V	Morocco		26.24
45	Tanta University	Egypt		26.19
46	Federal University of Technology Minna	Nigeria		26.19
47	Moi University	Kenya		26.03
48	Tshwane University of Technology	South Africa		26.01
49	Federal University of Technology Akure	Nigeria		25.33
50	University of Limpopo	South Africa		24.89

Source: JournalsConsortium