ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, an organization dedicated to research on higher education intelligence and consultation, published its 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, on which no Moroccan universities are listed.
Over 2,500 institutions were scrutinized this year and only the best world’s 1,000 universities were listed in the ranking.
Moroccan universities were excluded from the listing, which has been the case for years now. Tunisian and Algerian universities are also missing from this year’s ranking.
More than 200 American universities dominated the ARWU list with 39 among the top 100.
Harvard University tops the ranking for the 20th time, followed by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as second and third respectively.
UK Universities were also present on the ranking’s top 10, including the University of Cambridge as 4th and the University of Oxford as 7th.
As for European universities, French institutions maintained their positions in the top 100, with the Paris-Saclay University succeeding to take the 16th position, PSL in the 40th, Sorbonne 43th, and the University of Paris Cite in the 78th rank.
Germany has four universities ranked in the Top 100 as well, namely the Technical University of Munich in the 56th rank, the University of Munich in the 57th, Heidelberg University in the 70th, and the University of Bonn in the 76th.
Seven Egyptian universities were able to appear on the list, namely Cairo University (304-400), Alexandria University (501-600), Mansoura University (601-700), Ain Shams University(701-800), Al-Azhar University (801-900), Zagazig University (801-900), and Kafr El-Sheikh University (901-1000).
South Africa has 9 universities among the ARWU list in the 200-1000th positions. Saudi Arabia with 7 universities with 4 among the top 500.
Each of The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, and Lebanon has one university appearing in the ranking.
China counts 186 universities ranked in the Top 1000, of which 83 Top 500 universities, and 9 Top 100 universities as the number of universities in mainland China is still increasing.
Every year, the ARWU presents the best universities in the world since 2003, on the basis of a transparent methodology and objective data from third parties.
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