UNZA improves its continental ranking, now ranked 18th best in Africa. The University of Zambia is now ranked 18th best university in Africa, according to the UniRank 2020 African University Ranking.
This was revealed by Higher Education Minister Brian Mushimba who is elated by the development. Dr Mushimba says UNZA has been improving its ranking since 2016.
“In 2016, The University of Zambia (UNZA) was ranked 55 among African Universities. In 2018, it marginally improved its ranking to 45. In the last year, we have just seen its ranking leap frog other universities and now is ranked 18,” Dr Mushimba said.
He declared that the target is to ensure UNZA is a top 10 African university. Dr. Mushimba has since congratulated UNZA for the achievement.
The top ten bracket is dominated by South African universities with the University of Cape Town ranked the best university in Africa from a list of 200 institutions.
Below is the link to the full rankings.
https://www.4icu.org/top-universities-africa/?fbclid=IwAR27_1Vjg-OtdYU6K8q2vThJWq5PJbSOA2ZddjL71WyDwdbE5slY8qIQrPY
That is good news
Good news indeed! Just hoping it’s improving due to its effort and not because the others are becoming gutter Universities.
Very good UNZA but can we sustain this? Not whn UNZALARU and UNZA cannot even hv a civilised dialogue.
Great stuff. Our education system is revered. Let us respect our institutions. Under pf we have invested heavily in education hence these results we are seeing. I urge you all to send your kids to our institutions rather than abroad where they ste taught to erase their history. Look at how the evil upnd diasporans have been brain washed
Good news indeed
Great achievement for our country.
Please push up CBU. The first step could be to bring in a new Vice Chancellor. As for the current one, most lecturers have very low opinion of him. CBU requires a Vice Chancellor who can come up with innovative ideas.
Excellent news for Zambia.
We urge the Minister to endeavor improving our second highest University, CBU. The starting point could be to replace the current Vice-Chancellor. From impeccable sources, most lecturers do not trust him since he does not encourage research so much.
On the other hand , his qualifications are in a field which is not even offered at CBU.
Congratulations to my varsity and alma mater
GOOD NEWS INDEED
HOWEVER, I FEEL ALL GRADUATES NEED TO CONTINUE WITH THEIR EDUCATION AFTER LEAVING VARSITY BY READING AND APPLYING THEIR KNOWLEDGE.
A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS JUST AN INTRODUCTION
Follow the link and you realise that the ranking is non academic. It has nothing to do with quality of education but is based on:
1. ability to offer traditional face to face courses
2. Registered with appropriate higher education authority
3. Offering 4 year programme.
UNZA is a traditional university and easily meet this criteria and can even be ranked number 1 in Africa. So what was the ranking before this? Minister should not excite the nation with non academic achievements- please share academic ranking.
Ubututu,
I beg to differ. The ranking has everything to do with the quality of education offered by the ranked universities. If you know uniRank well, you will realize that the criteria you have cited are not the sole criteria used in the ranking. Other criteria include indicators of quality of staff (the number of academic staff with doctorates from reputable universities), research impact (based on citation indicators like the h-index). Bear in mind that UNZA has recently experienced an upsurge in research activity because of the new stringent promotion system which stresses quality research and publications and teaching for one to be promoted.
You strike me as being unhappy and cynical with an achievement that any Zambian is expected to celebrate. One wonders why.
Let’s be serious. As much as there can be an upsurge in research activity at UNZA, it is not a top 20 institution. Unirank themselves have explicitly stated and ubututu has pointed out the metrics that Unirank have used. I agree with you that we should celebrate achievements, but equally, we should not deceive ourselves into thinking that we are greater than we are as this type of mentality is equally counterproductive.