Uganda Education News: Makerere improves academic and web ranking

Ultimate Media

Makerere University has improved its global rankings from 1256^th to 1177^th position, which is leap of 79 positions according to the latest webometrics ranking report..

The January 2012 rankings places the university to the 12^th position on the African Continent which makes Makerere University the best ranking institution in sub Saharan Africa outside South Africa and the best in the region.

The University of Nairobi is placed at the 17^th position and the University of Dar es Salam is standing at the 28^th position.

The Vice Chancellor Prof Venansius Baryamureeba attributed the university’s improvement worldwide to an increase in the number of web pages under the university domain.

Baryamureeba told journalists that Makerere University ranked in the 8^th position by academic performance in Africa.

He explains that the university still remains number 8 out of the 59 higher Education Institutions ranked in 18 African Countries according to the University Ranking by Academic Performance Research Laboratory.