According to the 2014 university web rankings list released by 4 icu.org that shows popularity of higher institutions online, the University of Rwanda ( College of Arts and Social Sciences in Huye) ranks 39 among all Africans universities.
The most highly performing university in the region is the university of Dar es Salaam that is ranked 12 in the region. It beats other regional heavy weights including Kenya’s University of Nairobi at position 17 and Makerere university in Uganda.
Kenya however managed to sneak in the highest number of institutions on the top 100 list with five universities as compared to Tanzania’s two, Uganda one and Rwanda’s one.
4icu says it considers various variables while putting up the web ranking including: the Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Majestic Seo Referring Domains, Majestic Seo Citation Flow and the Majestic Seo Trust Flow.
According to 4icu there were a number of universities without websites including two universities from Uganda namely Fairland University and the Uganda Pentecostal University, Rwanda’s Kavumu College of Education, Rukara College of Education, while Katavi University of Agriculture in Tanzania also does not have web presence.
Apart from web ranking 4icu also recognized universities official social media accounts.
4icu says the aim of its website is to provide an insight into the popularity of university websites especially to international students and academic staff to help them understand how popular a specific University/College is in a foreign country.
The University of Rwanda with its affiliated colleges has been conceived as to bring together both academic staff and students in order to increase the performance and effectiveness in education and reduce the expenses that were allocated in separate universities and colleges.
Allafrica.com
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