Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Pedagogical University of Maputo (UP-Maputo) and Universidade Católica de Moçambique (UCM), appear in the ranking of the best universities in Africa in 2021.
According to UniRank for the African continent, the three universities Mozambican universities were ranked in the list of the top two hundred universities of Africa, and the UEM has the best ranking of the national universities placing it in position 35, followed by UP Maputo that occupies the position 141; and the UCM in position 174.
For the ranking, UniRank used three criteria for the position of each African institution namely, being licensed or accredited by the organization related to higher education higher education in the country; offering undergraduate or graduate degrees (masters and doctorates) and face-to-face rather than distance learning.
According to the portal https://www.4icu.org/top-universities-africa/, the purpose of the ranking is to offer a non-academic table of the best African universities based on evaluations of the ranking is led by South African universities namely University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria and University of the Witwatersrand in first, second and third third position respectively.
Recall that in the year 2020, UEM was ranked at position 42 and UP Maputo at position 69.
