The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020; Here are the top 100 universities- Nairobi University in the list

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 have been released. The rankings have 1,400 universities across 92 countries in the World.

In Africa, Egypt tops with 20 universities followed by South Africa which has 10. Closer home, it is only Nairobi university which made it to the list; among the Kenyan universities.

Here are the numbers of universities per the African Countries in the list:

Egypt: 20
South Africa: 10
Algeria: 8
Tunisia: 6
Nigeria: 4
Morocco: 4
Kenya: 1
Ghana: 1
Uganda: 1
Tanzania: 1

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are among the most comprehensive and prestigious in the higher education sector. They are based on five pillars: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.

The University of Oxford in the UK has retained its position at the top of the log for the fourth year in a row.

American and UK universities continue to cement themselves among the global elite, with universities from both countries dominating the top 10.

Here is the list of the top 100 universities as published by The Times Higher Education:

Rank	Name
1	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
2	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
4	Stanford UniversityUnited StatesExplore
5	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
6	Princeton UniversityUnited States
7	Harvard UniversityUnited States
8	Yale UniversityUnited States
9	University of ChicagoUnited StatesExplore
10	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
11	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
12	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
=13	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
=13	ETH ZurichSwitzerland
15	UCLUnited Kingdom
16	Columbia UniversityUnited States
17	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
18	University of TorontoCanada
19	Cornell UniversityUnited States
20	Duke UniversityUnited States
21	University of Michigan-Ann ArborUnited States
22	Northwestern UniversityUnited States
23	Tsinghua UniversityChinaExplore
24	Peking UniversityChina
25	National University of SingaporeSingaporeExplore
26	University of WashingtonUnited States
=27	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
=27	London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom
29	New York UniversityUnited States
30	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
31	University of California, San DiegoUnited States
=32	LMU MunichGermanyExplore
=32	University of MelbourneAustraliaExplore
34	University of British ColumbiaCanadaExplore
35	University of Hong KongHong KongExplore
=36	King’s College LondonUnited KingdomExplore
36	The University of TokyoJapan
38	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland
38	Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
38	University of Texas at AustinUnited States
41	Karolinska InstituteSweden
42	McGill UniversityCanada
43	Technical University of MunichGermany
44	Heidelberg UniversityGermany
=45	KU LeuvenBelgiumExplore
=45	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University ParisFrance
47	The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong KongExplore
=48	University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
=48	Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSingaporeExplore
50	Australian National UniversityAustralia
51	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
52	Washington University in St LouisUnited StatesExplore
53	Brown UniversityUnited States
54	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
=55	University of California, DavisUnited States
=55	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
=57	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
=57	Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongExplore
59	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands
60	University of SydneyAustraliaExplore
61	Boston UniversityUnited States
=62	University of AmsterdamNetherlandsExplore
=62	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
64	Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
65	Kyoto UniversityJapan
66	University of QueenslandAustraliaExplore
=67	Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands
=67	Leiden UniversityNetherlandsExplore
69	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlandsExplore
70	Ohio State University (Main campus)United States
71	UNSW SydneyAustraliaExplore
72	McMaster UniversityCanadaExplore
73	University of GroningenNetherlandsExplore
74	Humboldt University of BerlinGermany
=75	Monash UniversityAustraliaExplore
=75	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands
77	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom
78	Penn State (Main campus)United States
79	University of MinnesotaUnited States
=80	Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany
=80	Emory UniversityUnited States
=80	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina
=80	Sorbonne UniversityFrance
84	Michigan State UniversityUnited States
85	University of MontrealCanadaExplore
86	University of FreiburgGermany
87	University of BristolUnited Kingdom
88	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States
89	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)South KoreaExplore
90	University of ZurichSwitzerland
=91	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States
=91	University of TübingenGermany
93	École PolytechniqueFranceExplore
=94	University of BaselSwitzerland
=94	Dartmouth CollegeUnited States
=96	University of California, IrvineUnited States
=96	University of HelsinkiFinlandExplore
=96	Lund UniversitySweden
=99	University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom
=99	RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany

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