What are the top 10 best universities in South Africa? Which universities in South Africa rank highest in terms of impact in research and development? Which of all South Africa's 123 universities is the best?
Best SA Universities Based on Research and Development Impact
This post gives you the highest-ranking universities in South Africa for 2022 in terms of research and development impact, according to data collected by The Times Higher Education Rankings 2022. You can take a look at the full list here.
See also;
- World University Ranking 2023: UCC is best University in Ghana, 1st in West Africa, 4th in Africa
- KNUST ranked best university in the world
- University of Ghana ranks among top 6.1% of world-class universities, 1st in Ghana, 2nd in West Africa
- Best Universities in Africa in promoting quality education (SDG 4)
- 10 Best Universities in Africa
- The Best Universities in Ghana – 2021 Ranking
- Top 10 Best Universities in Nigeria
- List of Best Universities in West Africa 2023
- 2023 Best Universities in Africa
Africa has a total of 1896 universities. Nigeria has the highest number of universities in West Africa and even the whole of Africa with at least 262 higher learning institutions, followed by Tunisia with 206 universities. Morocco and Kenya have 153 and 129 respectively, and South Africa has the fifth-highest number of universities.
South African universities have always dominated the list of top-ranked universities on the African continent, always taking up more than half of the top 10 best universities in Africa. The names on this list are familiar in almost every African university ranking.
List of 10 Best Universities in South Africa
Now on to the list of best universities in Nigeria, also the most preferred universities in the country sorted into best in research and human development;
University of Cape Town (UCT) is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
In terms of full university status, it is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa together with Stellenbosch University which received full university status on the same day in 1918.
Although UCT was founded by a private act of Parliament in 1918, the Statute of the University of Cape Town (issued in 2002 in terms of the Higher Education Act) sets out its structure and roles and places the Chancellor – currently, Dr Precious Moloi Motsepe – as the ceremonial figurehead and invests real leadership authority in the Vice-Chancellor, currently Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng, who is accountable to the University Council.
UCT is the highest-ranked African university in the QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and its Commerce, Law, and Medicine Faculties are consistently placed among the hundred best internationally.
It is the only African member of the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF), within the World Economic Forum, which is made up of 26 of the world's top universities. Five alumni, staff members and researchers associated with UCT have won the Nobel Prize. As of March 2020, 35 UCT staff members are A-rated NRF researchers (constituting 30% of the national total) and 88 staff members are members of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa.