{"id":243513,"date":"2018-05-10T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=243513"},"modified":"2018-05-10T10:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T08:39:34","slug":"south-africas-two-best-universities-slip-in-new-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/243513\/south-africas-two-best-universities-slip-in-new-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s two best universities slip in new ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times Higher Education (THE) has released its latest rankings for universities in emerging economies.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Emerging Economies University Rankings includes 378 universities, up from 300 last year. It uses the same 13 performance indicators as the THE World University Rankings, but they have been recalibrated to reflect the development priorities of universities in emerging economies.<\/p>\n

The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: Teaching (the learning environment); Research (volume, income and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (staff, students and research); and Industry Income (knowledge transfer).<\/p>\n

According to the report, the gap between China\u2019s elite universities and the rest of its higher education sector is widening with the country’s Peking University and Tsinghua University claiming the top two places for the fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n

The country takes a further five places in the top 10 (one more than last year) and one in six \u2013 or 63 \u2013 positions in the table overall, up from 52 last year.<\/p>\n

In contrast, South Africa now boasts just one university in the top 10 – the University of Cape Town (9th) – which slipped down five places compared to 2017’s ranking of 4th.<\/p>\n

Notably the University of the Witwatersrand has slipped out of the top 10 – down from 8th in 2017 to 12th in 2018.<\/p>\n

Other universities, including the University of Stellenbosch (up six places to 38th in 2018), the University of the Kwa-Zulu Natal (up seventeen places to 41st in 2018), and the
\nUniversity of Pretoria (up eight places to 66th), saw steady increases.<\/p>\n

However, the biggest riser was the University of Johannesburg which climbed 49 places to 92nd.<\/p>\n

In explaining the drop, researcher Ellie Bothwell said that while Chinese universities saw major improvements, South African universities had only noticeably improved in a few areas but dropped in others.<\/p>\n

“South Africa, whose overall change is comparable with India\u2019s, is falling back on reputation, overall resources and productivity – but improving on research quality and research income,” she said.<\/p>\n

South African rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
South African Ranking<\/th>\nName<\/th>\nOverall 2017 ranking<\/th>\nOverall 2018 ranking<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nUniversity of Cape Town<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n9<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nUniversity of Witwatersrand<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n12<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nStellenbosch University<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n38<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n41<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nUniversity of Pretoria<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n66<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nUniversity of Johannesburg<\/td>\n141<\/td>\n92<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nUniversity of the Western Cape<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n117<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nUniversity of South Africa<\/td>\n251-300 (exact ranking not given)<\/td>\n251-300 (exact ranking not given)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Overall top 10 rankings for 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nName<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nNumber of students<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nPeking University<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n42 136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nTsinghua University<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n42 089<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nLomonosov Moscow State University<\/td>\nRussia<\/td>\n\u00a029 236<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nFudan Univerity<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n\u00a032 859<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nUniversity of Science and Technology of\u00a0 China<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n\u00a016 032<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nZhejiang University<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n\u00a050 051<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nShanghai Jiao Tong University<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n\u00a037 288<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nNanjing University<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n\u00a033 456<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/strong><\/td>\nUniversity of Cape Town<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0South Africa<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a020 775<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n\u00a0National Taiwan University<\/td>\n\u00a0Taiwan<\/td>\n\u00a031 758<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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