The University of Nairobi (UoN) has emerged top in the country and eleventh in Africa in this year’s rankings by UniRank, a global ranking engine ‘transforming the higher education’ landscape.
Kenyatta University scooped second place while Strathmore University, United States International University Africa (USIU) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) followed closely sealing the top five positions.
Egerton University, Mount Kenya University, Moi University, Technical University of Kenya and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) rounded up the top ten list.
The largest drop in the country’s ranking was St. Paul’s University which dropped from third to 25th position.
UniRank ranked the best universities out of the country’s 63 institutions of higher learning meeting the required thresholds and laws provided by the Ministry of Education.
The ranking engine noted that one of the factors they looked at was the whether the Ministry of Education had chartered the institution.
“Being chartered, licensed or accredited by the appropriate Kenyan higher education-related organization; offering at least three-year bachelor’s degrees or postgraduate masters or doctoral degrees; delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, non-distance education format,” UniRank added.
UniRank aims to provide a non-academic League Table of the top Kenyan Universities based on valid, unbiased and non-influenceable web metrics provided by independent web intelligence sources rather than data submitted by the Universities themselves.
By Thuita Jaswant
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