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UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA
We listed African universities ( not colleges and similar institutions ) under regional categories. You may see them by clicking seperate sections in following pages. You will also see rank of all country universities according to 2012 Top African Universities report of 4ICU institution.
THE OLDEST AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES |
BC 2278 Kemet - Egypt { World's first university } 737 University of Ez-Zitouna - Tunusia 859 University of Al-Karaouine - Morocco 970 Al-Azhar University - Egypt [ 69 th ] 1827 Fourah Bay College - Sierra Leone 1827 University of Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone 1829 University of Cape Town - South Africa [ 1 th ] 1866 Stellenbosch University - South Africa [ 2nd ] 1902 University of Khartoum - Sudan [ 22 nd ] 1908 Cairo University - Egypt [ 7 th ] 1909 University of Algiers - Algeria [ 59 th ] 1919 The American University - Egypt [ 8 th ] 1922 Makerere University - Uganda [ 18 th ] 1939 Egerton University (as Egerton Farm School) - Kenya 1948 University of Ghana - Ghana [ 15 th ] 1948 University of Ibadan - Nigeria [ 40 th ] 1950 University of Addis Ababa - Ethiopia [ 34 th ] 1951 Liberia College - University of Liberia - Liberia 1952 University of Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe [ 37 th ] 1962 Agostinho Neto University (as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola) - Angola 1962 Eduardo Mondlane University (as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique) - Mozambique [ 27 th ] |