Harvard University turns out to be the the best University in the world. Photo: Harvard
The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) has released the 2015 list of top Universities around the world.
The list is based on eight measures, including the portion of Alumni who have won major international awards or held CEO positions at the world’s leading companies and the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals.
The only African University that manages to make it to the first 149th spot is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and University of Cape Town at 248th spot.
Here is the list of top 20 best universities in the world and no African University makes the list.
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
4. University of Cambridge United Kingdom
5. University of Oxford United Kingdom
6. Columbia University USA
7. University of California, Berkeley USA
8. University of Chicago USA
9. Princeton University USA
10. Cornell University USA
11. Yale University USA
12. California Institute of Technology USA
13. University of Tokyo, Japan
14. University of Pennsylvania
15. University of California, Los Angeles
16. Johns Hopkins University
17. Kyoto University Japan
18. New York University
19. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA
20. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland
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