A question of which is the best University in Kenya will probably draw biased opinions depending on which college one went to or is in now. Historically? University of Nairobi being the oldest and with relatively well developed infrastructure gets the honors of being the best? University in Kenya . But there are people who can argue justifiably that there are a number of universities which can now lay claim to that title, and in particular Strathmore University
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So this is how Kenyan universities are ranked? by Google ?according to GoogleCollegerankings\
- University of Nairobi
- Moi University
- Kenyatta University
- Maseno University
- Egerton University
- Strathmore University
- Maseno University
- Catholic University of Eastern Africa
- United States International University
- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
I? always think that JKUAT should be among the top ranked universities in Kenya but that seems not to be the case here and in many other rankings I have seen before .
Strathmore might feel short? changed here since it was the highest ranked university in Kenya, according to the January 2009 webometrics ranking of world universities. At position 12 in Africa, Strathmore was the highest ranked university outside Egypt and South Africa.
Strathmore and Catholic universities are based in Nairobi but have their domain names under .edu extensions instead of .ac.ke domain name extensions. According googlecollegerankings an automated system might mistakenly include them in U.S. rankings and exclude them from Kenyan rankings.
Strathmore
So which is the best University in Kenya?
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I would say doing a general ranking like it has been done by google and webometrics overlooks many crucial details and is not helpful at all if the rankings are meant to help one make a decision on which university they should join. The better way would be ranking them in different areas of specialty say who are the best in Business studies, technology studies…. etc
I think you are very right. Each University has its own strength in certain areas. Like for example when you talk about Medicine then the University of Nairobi is the king. If you talk about IT then we are thinking about Strathmore and JKUAT. If talk about Business School, then again University of Nairobi and Strathmore come to mind and so on
These rankings are like beauty contests: mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all. Having said that, web indicators are useful for ranking purposes as they capture many activities of professors and researchers.
This is because they capture not only formal (e-journals, repositories) but also informal scholarly communication. Web publications are also accessible to more people thus have a larger audience, and offer access to other parties outside the academia like the media, policy makers, the business community.
beauty contest..hehehe lol, but agree with you about the indicators
Ranking is based on many variables, but most important is faculty and resources; in terms of faculty University of Nairobi is ahead followed by Kenyatta University and Moi (badly affected by tribal conflicts); in terms of resources, Nairobi tops followed very closely bt Kenyatta University (very ambitious infrastructure program – i.e. 2nd biggest Library in Africa; 2nd Biggest referral hospital in Kenya), followed by Moi. Strathmore,USIU will not compare to this giants in terms of faculty and resources, probably when we consider use of Information Systems, then USIU, KU, strathnore rules!