Top 10 Universities in East Africa: Looking for the best universities in East Africa? The latest report has ranked the 1326 universities in all parts of Africa and the best university in East Africa is University of Nairobi. There has been a major rise in competition among East Africa Universities. Arguably to many, the following universities are the best that East Africa has to offer
Top 10 Universities in East Africa
| Position | Name of University | Country | Position in Top Universities Africa |
| 1 | University of Nairobi | Kenya | 6 |
| 2 | Makerere University | Uganda | 16 |
| 3 | Kenyatta University | Kenya | 24 |
| 4 | Addis Ababa University | Ethiopia | 29 |
| 5 | University of Dar es Salam | Tanzania | 34 |
| 6 | Strathmore University | Kenya | 39 |
| 7 | University of Khartoum | Sudan | 50 |
| 8 | United State International University Africa | Kenya | 58 |
| 9 | Sudan University of Science and Technology | Sudan | 63 |
| 10 | Jomo Kenyatta of Agriculture and Technology | Kenya | 65 |
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Based webometrics ranking, which looked at impact, openness and excellence rank of Universities across the globe,
the following were best university in East Africa
| East Africa position | University | World Rank |
| 1 | Makerere University | 1066 |
| 2 | University of Nairobi | 1076 |
| 3 | Addis Ababa University | 1295 |
| 4 | University of Khartoum | 1788 |
| 5 | University of Dar Es Salam | 1985 |
| 6 | Kenyatta University | 2064 |
| 7 | Kampala International University | 2118 |
| 8 | Sudan University of Science and Technology | 2152 |
| 9 | Egerton University | 2378 |
| 10 | Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology | 2466 |
The ranking methodology used by Webometrics includes
Excellence rank– Considered the excellent publications i.e. the University publication on the scientific field. It should be notable that quality and not Quantity was used in the rank
Presence rank-The hosted a number of WebPages in the main domain including sub-domain was used to determine this ranking
Openness rank– In this indicator, the effort to start up institutional research is the methodology used. It takes into account the number of affluent files published to dedicated websites according to search engines
Impact rank– An effective referendum is used to evaluate the quality content, counting all the external links that the University web domain receives from the third party
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