University Rankings

EducationScience & Technology

Measuring what matters: rethinking research excellence in Africa

Conventional citation metrics create structural bias against African scholarship, penalising locally relevant work whilst rewarding research with limited community impact
Education

Makerere disputes report it has lost ground to African rivals

Makerere University has contested the accuracy of a Daily Monitor report that claimed that the university had fallen in global rankings and lost its place among Africa's top universities
The Makerere University Ivory Tower
OpinionPolitics & Policy

Rethinking university rankings: we need to talk about quality (and inequality) of teaching

The more reputable global university rankings heavily favour research-intensive, well-resourced universities; they say nothing about the actual quality of teaching as experienced by students or academics.
Silhouette of people standing on a hill
Politics & Policy

Makerere drops in latest global university ranking, but moves up in Africa

The latest ranking of the world's top universities, released on Wednesday, places Makerere University in the 401-500 band of the 980 institutions ranked. Specifically, Makerere is in the 446th position in the Times Higher Education Rankings versus 407 in 2016.