SA universities rankings

Stellenbosch University expelled a student who was caught weeing on a black student’s belongings – Photo: Flickr

SA universities amongst world’s best on Times Higher Education list

Times Higher Education has published its annual ranking of the world’s best universities and 15 of them are from South Africa!

SA universities rankings

Stellenbosch University expelled a student who was caught weeing on a black student’s belongings – Photo: Flickr

A total of 15 South African universities have made it to the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023

The list of the world’s best institutions was published on Wednesday, 12 October. 

LATEST TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING  

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 include 1 799 universities across 104 countries and regions. 

The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

This year’s ranking reportedly analysed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.

The University of Oxford continues to top the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in second place, but the University of Cambridge jumps from joint fifth last year to joint third.

The highest new entry is Italy’s Humanitas University, ranked in the 201-250 bracket.

The US is the most represented country overall, with 177 institutions, and also the most represented in the top 200 (58).

Mainland China now has the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 (11, compared with 10 last year), having overtaken Australia, which has dropped to fifth (joint with the Netherlands).

Five countries entered the ranking for the first time and all of them are in Africa (Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mauritius).

Harvard tops the teaching pillar, while Oxford leads the research pillar. Atop the international pillar is the Macau University of Science and Technology. 

SA UNIVERSITIES RANKED

The University of Cape Town (UCT) continues to maintain its spot as the leading institution in the country with Stellenbosch University in the second place overtaking Wits. The University of KwaZulu-Natal and Durban University of Technology also made it to the top five.

NameRanking
University of Cape Town160
Stellenbosch University 251 – 300
University of the Witwatesrand251 – 300
University of KwaZulu-Natal401 – 500
Durban University of Technology501 – 600
University of Johannesburg601 – 800
North West University 601 – 800
University of the Western Cape601 – 800
University of the Free State801 – 1000
University of Pretoria801 – 1000
Rhodes University801 – 1000
University of South Africa1001 – 1200
University of Fort Hare1001 – 1200
Tshwane University of Technology

University of Venda
1201 – 1200

1201 – 1200
Source: Times Higher Education

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