University of Cape Town

An annual global ranking survey of 2 000 tertiary institutions has been completed by major research company, QS. It takes into account reputation, faculty citations, student-faculty ratio and international population. And according to this ranking, the University of Cape Town is the 156th best university in the world. It is also the only African university on the list.

According to this list, Cambridge is the best university in the world, followed by Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Oxford to make up the Top 5. UCT sits comfortably at number 156, right between the University of Vienna and the University of Western Ontario.

Are you upset that your university didn’t make it? Wondering how the hell they came up with the list? Check out their methodology here.

[Source: Top Universities]