{"id":65160,"date":"2014-08-10T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=65160"},"modified":"2014-08-08T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T10:50:50","slug":"top-south-african-universities-in-brics-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/65160\/top-south-african-universities-in-brics-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Top South African universities in BRICS ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Cape Town has once again been ranked as the top South African university in the QS University BRICS rankings.<\/p>\n

The institute was ranked 9th overall across all BRICS universities, with a score of 84.9, tied with UniCamp in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Wits, which was ranked SA’s top university in the recent Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)<\/a>, found itself second to UCT, ranked 31st overall, with a score of 72.1.<\/p>\n

Stellenbosch University was rated the third best university in the country (34th overall), followed by the University of Pretoria at 46th.<\/p>\n

Top SA Universities<\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/strong><\/td>\nUniversity<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nUniversity of Cape Town<\/td>\n84.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\nUniversity of the Witwatersrand<\/td>\n72.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\nStellenbosch University<\/td>\n70.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46<\/td>\nUniversity of Pretoria<\/td>\n64.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
60<\/td>\nUniversity of Kwa-Zulu Natal<\/td>\n57.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
63<\/td>\nUniversity of Johannesburg<\/td>\n56.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
76<\/td>\nRhodes University<\/td>\n50.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
92<\/td>\nUniversity of the Western Cape<\/td>\n43.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
101-110<\/td>\nUniversity of the Free State<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
151-200<\/td>\nNelson Mandela Metropolitan University<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
151-200<\/td>\nNorth-West University<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Top 10 BRICS universities<\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/strong><\/td>\nUniversity<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nTsinghua University<\/td>\n100.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nPeking University<\/td>\n97.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nLomonosov Moscow University<\/td>\n92.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nUniversity of Science and Technology of China<\/td>\n89.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFudan University<\/td>\n89.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nNanjing University<\/td>\n87.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nUniversidade de Sao Paulo<\/td>\n86.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nShanghai Jiao Tong University<\/td>\n85.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nUniversidade Estadual do Campinas<\/td>\n84.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nUniversity of Cape Town<\/td>\n84.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

It should be noted that different university rankings weight their scoring criteria differently.<\/p>\n

According to the QS University ranking methodology, the following weights were applied to determine its ranks:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Academic reputation (30%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Employer reputation (20%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Faculty\/student ratio (20%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Staff with a PhD (10%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Papers per faculty (10%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Citations per paper (5%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. International faculty (2.5%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. International students (2.5%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The QS 2013 global rankings placed UCT in 145th overall, followed again by Wits (313th), and Stellenbosch (387th).<\/p>\n

    Outside of the top 400 universities, QS does not list specific ranks for the institutions, opting for a range.<\/p>\n

    \"SA<\/a>

    SA university rankings (2013)<\/p><\/div>\n

    The QS 2014 rankings have not yet been released.<\/p>\n

    The full QS BRICS university rankings can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    More on South Africa\u2019s universities<\/h3>\n

    South Africa university rankings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Tuition fees for SA universities compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Top universities in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    SA university revises admissions policy for black students<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    UCT has again been ranked as the top SA university in the QS University BRICS rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,8570,7138,8568],"class_list":["post-65160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-sq-rankings","tag-uct","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65160","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=65160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65180,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65160\/revisions\/65180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}