Eight Moroccan Universities Featured in Higher Education Ranking
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Loading... - Margarita Zavala
- 02 May 2022
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Eight Moroccan universities have featured in the 2022 world ranking of universities of the London magazine the Times Higher Education (THE).
The Moroccan universities are ranked among the top 1,000 universities worldwide.
Ibn Tofail University of Kenitra came in first place among Moroccan universities, followed by the International University of Rabat (UIR) and Mohammed V University of Rabat.
Euromed University of Fes landed in fourth place, followed by Hassan II University of Casablanca, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University of Fes, Abdelmalek Essaadi University of Tetouan-Tangier, and Hassan First University of Settat.
The Moroccan universities are ranked between 601st and 1001st worldwide.
Topping the global ranking are American and British higher learning institutions.
Oxford University ranked first worldwide, followed by California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In Africa, Egypt dominates the ranking with 36 universities, followed by nine Nigerian universities, eight universities each in Morocco and South Africa, six in Ghana, and five universities each in Tunisia and Algeria.
The Times Higher Education rankings have been compiled since 2004 and list 1,600 universities in 99 countries.
The magazine focuses on 13 indicators grouped into five categories to evaluate the universities.
The categories are the working environment (30%), the number and scope of research (30%), the influence of the research (30%), the international reputation of professors (7.5%), students and researchers as well as connections with companies (2.5%).
The presence of eight Moroccan universities in the Times Higher Education’s assessment of the world’s best universities confirms the increasingly positive performance of Moroccan learning institutions in regional and global rankings.
In April, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked Mohammed V University in Rabat as the best in the Maghreb. Read More...
