20 Egyptian Universities have been named in the table of Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings in 2020.
The number of Egyptian universities in the list has been increased from just nine universities in 2017, eight universities in 2016, and a sharp rise from only three in 2015.
The universities which made the list included the American University in Cairo, Benha University, Beni Suef University, Kafr al-Sheikh University, Mansoura University, and Suez Canal University.
Alexandria University, Cairo University, Fayoum University, Sohag University, and Tanta University, ranking between 801 and 1000.
These were followed by Ain Shams University, Azhar University, Assuit University, Helwan University, Menoufia University, Minya University, South Valley University and Zagazig University, who all came between 1,001 and 1, 1000 positions.
The Times Ranking is one of the most important international rankings of universities, with rigorous criteria that measure 13 indicators of the institution’s performance in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international expectations.
It is noteworthy that Cairo University has achieved unprecedented progress on other international rankings this year as well, such as in the Shanghai Chinese classification, for which it ranked for the first time in its history in the category of 301 to 400.
It also advanced in the English QS classification in a number of disciplines by 110 percent and approached the world’s top 100 caps in pharmaceutical sciences.
It also ranked 452 out of 1,000 universities on the Center for World University Rankings classification.
Egyptian universities recorded advanced rankings on the Spanish classification Scimago and ranked in the Leiden Dutch classification 341 globally.
This year’s list was topped by the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. The Times World University Rankings 2020 is calculated based on five subject areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
More than 1,200 of the world’s best higher education institutions, up from just over 1,100 last year, are included in the index, ranked on teaching, research, citation index, income from industry and international outlook.
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