{"id":18423,"date":"2019-02-04T05:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2019-02-04T05:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T02:42:23","slug":"makerere-university-drops-from-4th-to-11th-as-best-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/makerere-university-drops-from-4th-to-11th-as-best-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Makerere University Drops From 4th to 11th As Best in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s best University, Makerere University, is lowly going down. The University has dropped the\u00a0 from the 4th to 11th in the recently concluded ranking of the universities in Africa according to the Webometrics ranking of universities.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Nairobi was ranked best in East Africa leaving makerere 2nd in second position. Makerere, ehich was known worldwide, previously as thr best in the African region, is gradually going down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/rankings-of-universities.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18430 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/rankings-of-universities-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/rankings-of-universities-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/rankings-of-universities-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/rankings-of-universities-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/rankings-of-universities.png 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Africa , all the top five in the rankings came from South Africa with University of Cape town ranked 1st.This was followed by University of Witwatersrand, then University of Pretoria. Then finally Stellenbosch university and the University of Kwazulu Natal<\/p>\n<p>In the top five rankings , Harvard University was ranked best university in the world. They were closely followed by Stanford university then Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Then by Oxford in the UK and in number five being University of California.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s best University, Makerere University, is lowly going down. The University has dropped the\u00a0 from the 4th to 11th in the recently concluded ranking of the universities in Africa according to the Webometrics ranking of universities. The University of Nairobi was ranked best in East Africa leaving makerere 2nd in second position. Makerere, ehich was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":18450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[582],"class_list":["post-18423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-makerere-university"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Makerere University Drops From 4th to 11th As Best in Africa - Ghafla!Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/makerere-university-drops-from-4th-to-11th-as-best-in-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Makerere University Drops From 4th to 11th As Best in Africa - Ghafla!Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Uganda&#8217;s best University, Makerere University, is lowly going down. 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