The University of Cape Town remains the top university in South Africa according to the Center for World University Rankings. Photo: Katie Holt / Flickr
South Africa’s Top 10 universities ranked: Spoiler alert – UCT is No 1
The University of Cape Town remains the top university in South Africa according to the Center for World University Rankings.
The University of Cape Town remains the top university in South Africa according to the Center for World University Rankings. Photo: Katie Holt / Flickr
The University of Cape Town (UCT) remains the top university in South Africa, according to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).
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UCT climbed three spots in the 2023 global rankings to 267th.
The University of Witwatersrand was the second-best-placed university in the country and climbed two spots to 290th.
Stellenbosch University was named the third-best university in South Africa, but its global rankings dropped nine places to 450th.
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The University of KwaZulu-Natal (478th) and the University of Pretoria (557th) were the fourth and fifth highest-ranked universities in South Africa, respectively.
The top 10 also featured the University of Johannesburg (628th), North-West University (887th), the University of the Free State (1 160th), the University of Western Cape (1 188th), and Rhodes University (1 300th).
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Top 10 South African universities:
| 2023 | 2022 | University |
| 267 | 270 | University of Cape Town |
| 290 | 292 | University of Witwatersrand |
| 450 | 441 | Stellenbosch University |
| 478 | 484 | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| 557 | 555 | University of Pretoria |
| 628 | 629 | University of Johannesburg |
| 887 | 880 | North-West University |
| 1160 | 1126 | University of the Free State |
| 1188 | 1186 | University of the Western Cape |
| 1300 | 1302 | Rhodes University |
Meanwhile, globally, Harvard, for the 12th year in a row, was named as the best university in the world
It was followed by two other US institutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford.
England’s Cambridge and Oxford make up the fourth and fifth spots, while the rest of the top 10 is completed by private US universities.
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Top 10 global list (last year’s rankings in parentheses):
- Harvard University (1)
- MIT (2)
- Stanford University (3)
- University of Cambridge (4)
- University of Oxford (5)
- Princeton University (6)
- University of Chicago (7)
- Columbia University (8)
- University of Pennsylvania (9)
- Yale University (11)
