Tz Universities on best Africa list

Tz Universities on best Africa list

University of Dar es salaam  once again  has featured  on  top slot in university rankings on the African Continent, according to results released by the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) research laboratory.

Tanzania also has Sokoine University of Agriculture(SUA) and Muhimbili University of  Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) featured on the list.

University  of Dar es salaam comes 36^th in Africa and 1593th in the world,SUA at 45 in Africa and 1771 in the world and MUHAS at 42^nd in Africa and 1716 in the world.

The latest ranking shows that Tanzania has some of the  most numbers of Universities appearing in the  ranking on the continent .

University Ranking by Academic Performance was established at the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University in 2009, to develop a ranking system of world universities by academic performance, which is more comprehensive in coverage. By covering 2,500 HEIs in the world, the URAP ranking avails more universities the opportunity to observe the state of the academic progress at both global and national levels.

It considers the six academic performance indicators including the Number of articles (Current Scientific Productivity), Citation (Research Impact), Cumulative Journal Impact (Scientific Impact), and H-Index (Research Quality).

Others are International Collaboration (International Acceptance), and Google Scholar Results (Long – Term Overall Productivity). A total score of 600 is distributed to each indicator as follows; Number of Articles 24percent , Google Scholar Counts 10percent, Citation 21percent, Cumulative Journal Impact 18percent, H-Index 12percent, and Collaboration 1percent.

The University of Cape Town ranked top in Africa at the 256th position and Harvard University ranked number one in the world.The data used in the ranking is gathered from Web of Science – an online tool for retrieving accurate citation counts, Google Scholar, open-access sources and credible sources which provide lists of HEIs, such as the ISI (Information Sciences Institute).

Information Sciences Institute is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computer and communications technologies.The ranking comes  a year after the transition of UDSM  from a faculty-based to a collegiate and schools.

More so, UDSM has always ranked high by Webometrics, in institutions of higher learning in Africa.

Webometrics is an organisation that monitors university performance worldwide.