{"id":281625,"date":"2018-11-02T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=281625"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:13:49","slug":"the-18-best-universities-in-south-africa-according-to-academic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/281625\/the-18-best-universities-in-south-africa-according-to-academic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"The 18 best universities in South Africa according to academic performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new ranking by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University, in Turkey, lists the 18 top universities in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for 2019 differs from other widely published rankings by not precluding the lower-end of institutions, particularly in developing nations.<\/p>\n

With 18 South African universities making the list for the 2018\/19 review period, it is the most comprehensive look at South Africa\u2019s higher education institutes (HEIs).<\/p>\n

The URAP is a research-only ranking using indicators that measure the quality, quantity and impact of publications, as well as international collaboration.<\/p>\n

The overall score of each HEI is based on its performance over several indicators, including current scientific productivity, research impact, research quality and international acceptance.<\/p>\n

Data is gathered from Web of Science and other sources which provide lists of HEIs, the group said.<\/p>\n

In the 2018\/19 ranking, South Africa’s top universities – the University of Cape Town and Wits – both dropped down the global rankings, though UCT remains in the top 250 universities in the world.<\/p>\n

Among South Africa’s 18 ranked universities, the position remains virtually unchanged from 2017\/18’s list, with the exception of the University of the Free State, which climbed 90 places to rank ahead of Rhodes University and Unisa.<\/p>\n

Unisa, meanwhile, showed a massive drop on the overall rankings, falling over 230 places – though it only dropped on place on the South African list due to UFS’ rise.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2018\/19<\/th>\n2017\/18<\/th>\nUniversity<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
241<\/span><\/td>\n229<\/td>\nUniversity of Cape Town<\/td>\n384.22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
321<\/span><\/td>\n317<\/td>\nUniversity of the Witwatersrand<\/td>\n358.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
349<\/span><\/td>\n349<\/td>\nUniversity of KwaZulu Natal<\/td>\n350.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
415<\/span><\/td>\n421<\/td>\nStellenbosch University<\/td>\n328.39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
474<\/span><\/td>\n459<\/td>\nUniversity of Pretoria<\/td>\n313.44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
627<\/span><\/td>\n655<\/td>\nUniversity of Johannesburg<\/td>\n276.58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
745<\/span><\/td>\n808<\/td>\nNorth West University<\/td>\n252.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
885<\/span><\/td>\n919<\/td>\nUniversity of the Western Cape<\/td>\n227.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1021<\/span><\/td>\n997<\/td>\nRhodes University<\/td>\n208.87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1004<\/span><\/td>\n1094<\/td>\nUniversity of the Free State<\/td>\n206.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1287<\/span><\/td>\n1051<\/td>\nUniversity of South Africa (Unisa)<\/td>\n174.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1414<\/span><\/td>\n1402<\/td>\nNelson Mandela University<\/td>\n160.51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1469<\/span><\/td>\n1587<\/td>\nTshwane University of Technology<\/td>\n154.22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1705<\/span><\/td>\n2069<\/td>\nDurban University of Technology<\/td>\n129.69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2034<\/span><\/td>\n2073<\/td>\nUniversity of Limpopo<\/td>\n98.41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2040<\/span><\/td>\n2100<\/td>\nCape Peninsula University of Technology<\/td>\n98.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2212<\/span><\/td>\n2273<\/td>\nUniversity of Fort Hare<\/td>\n81.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2374<\/span><\/td>\n2446<\/td>\nUniversity of Venda<\/td>\n66.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read:\u00a0Ranking the 12 best universities in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest\u00a0University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)\u00a0for 2019 has been published, listing the 18 top universities in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,13451],"class_list":["post-281625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-urap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281645,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281625\/revisions\/281645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}