Best Universities for Liberal Arts & Social Sciences in Africa
Below is a list of best universities in Africa ranked based on their research performance in Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. A graph of 20.1M citations received by 1.83M academic papers made by 364 universities in Africa was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.
2. University of the Witwatersrand
- Acceptance Rate
- 25%
- Founded
- 1922
3. University of Pretoria
- Acceptance Rate
- 13%
- Enrollment
- 56,483
- Male:Female
- 42:58
- Founded
- 1908
5. University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Acceptance Rate
- 63%
- Founded
- 2004
6. University of South Africa
- Enrollment
- 420,000
- Male:Female
- 36:64
- Founded
- 1873
7. North-West University
- Acceptance Rate
- 93%
- Enrollment
- 26,439
- Male:Female
- 42:58
- Founded
- 2004
8. University of Johannesburg
- Acceptance Rate
- 77%
- Enrollment
- 49,910
- Founded
- 2005
10. University of the Free State
- Acceptance Rate
- 25%
- Enrollment
- 37,000
- Founded
- 1904
12. University of the Western Cape
- Acceptance Rate
- 55%
- Enrollment
- 18,720
- Male:Female
- 40:60
- Founded
- 1959
16. Rhodes University
- Acceptance Rate
- 52%
- Enrollment
- 8,200
- Founded
- 1904
28. Nelson Mandela University
- Acceptance Rate
- 57%
- Founded
- 2005
41. University of Limpopo
- Acceptance Rate
- 45%
- Founded
- 1959
43. Tshwane University of Technology
- Acceptance Rate
- 89%
- Founded
- 2003
69. Eduardo Mondlane University
- Acceptance Rate
- 20%
- Founded
- 1962
72. Cape Peninsula University of Technology
- Acceptance Rate
- 91%
- Founded
- 2005
73. University of Zululand
- Acceptance Rate
- 45%
- Founded
- 1960
80. Durban University of Technology
- Acceptance Rate
- 45%
- Enrollment
- 10,213
- Founded
- 2002
82. Felix Houphouet-Boigny University
- Acceptance Rate
- 15%
- Founded
- 1964
89. University of Venda
- Acceptance Rate
- 72%
- Founded
- 1982
