UDSM RANKINGS (2010-2012)
In 2011, the University Ranking by
Academic Performance Center
ranked the University of Dar es
Salaam as the 1,593rd best
university in the world (2,000 were ranked).
[2] In 2011, AcademyRank.com ranked
the university as the 2,967th best
university worldwide (out of 9,805
ranked universities) but the best of
the 16 ranked in Tanzania, with the Sokoine University of Agriculture in second place.
In 2011, the Scimago Institutions
Rankings placed the university in
2,831st place worldwide, 55th in
Africa, and second in Tanzania
behind the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. This ranking, "based on quantitative data
of citation and publication[,] shows
bibliometric indicators that unveil
some of the main dimensions of
research performance of worldwide
research-devoted institutions".
Based solely on the university's
"excellence rate", the university was
ranked 16th out of 62 universities in
Africa. This rate "indicates which
percentage of an institution's
scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most
cited papers in their respective
scientific fields. It is a measure of
high quality output of research institutions".
[3] In January 2012, Webometrics
ranked the university as the 1,907th
best university worldwide based on
its web presence (an assessment of
the scholarly contents, visibility, and
impact of the university on the web) but the best in Tanzania, with the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University far behind in second place.[4]