Muhimbili University takes a bottom position in 200 best universities in Africa

By Osoro Nyawangah, MWANZA Tanzania

Tanzania’s Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) takes a bottom place in the Africa’s top universities list as South Africa universities take the lead of top 200 best universities in Africa in 2020, according to UniRank.

Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salam

With MUHAS on the198th position, the other two last universities on the list include the Université Hassan 1er in Morocco 199th, and Adekunle Ajasin University – Nigeria, 200th. 

Founded in 2007, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large commercial city of Dar es salaam.

According to the UniRank, this 13 years old higher- education institution has a selective admission policy based on students' past academic record and grades. The admission rate range is 20-30% making this Tanzanian higher education organization a very selective institution.

UniRank is an international higher education directory and search engine featuring reviews and rankings of over 13,600 officially recognized Universities and Colleges in 200 countries.

University of Pretoria

On the list, the University of Pretoria, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Johannesburg and University of KwaZulu-Natal, all South African based universities have been ranked in the top five.

The Universiteit Stellenbosch also South African based came on the sixth position, University of Nairobi seventh, University of Lagos eighth while North-West University also from South Africa came on position nine.

Cairo University sat at the bottom of the best 10 universities in Africa.

In the East Africa region, Kenyatta University in Kenya was ranked 16th, Makerere University – Uganda in 20th position, University of Dar es salaam 30^th, Sokoine University of Agriculture 91.

On the list of top 200 universities in the world, the United State colleges take the first 15 position with Massachusetts Institute of Technology taking the lead followed by Harvard University and Stanford University.

University of Toronto (Canada) takes 16^th position, University of Oxford (19^th), The University of British Columbia (23^rd) and University of Cambridge 27^th.

The last three universities on the world list are University of North Texas (198), Keio University (199) and Fordham University (200). - Africa