UPDATED : Top 50 best Universities and Colleges in Tanzania, 2018: Rankings by Webometrics

Webometrics a company that focuses on ranking of Universities and colleges in the world has released the 2018 rankings of the top higher institutions of learning in Tanzania. Some universities have improved from the 2017 Webometrics rankings others have dropped. University of Dar es salaam stil to the top.

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Webometrics is an invention of Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to CSIC, the largest public research organization in Spain (You can learn more about CSIC on this Wikipedia Page). CSIC is attached to the ministry of education in Spain.

Methodology of Webometrics Rankings

Webometrics university and college rankings are based on a research that focuses on Technologies, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It uses link analysis for quality evaluation.

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What we picked from them is that Web traffic, Scholarly Citations and page level matters in their rankings.

They however assert that their rankings are not based on web presence and visibility alone. You can learn more about Webometrics ranking methodology through this page: Methodology
 

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Latest Top 100 best Universities and Colleges in Tanzania in 2018

ranking	World Rank	University	Presence Rank*
1	2021	University of Dar Es Salaam	229
2	2520	Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences	4624
3	3877	Sokoine University of Agriculture	5594
4	4896	University of Dodoma	1581
5	5226	Mzumbe University	1575
6	5398	Open University of Tanzania	116
7	6037	Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (Weill Bugando University College)	22648
8	6150	Mkwawa University College of Education	21091
9	6427	Ardhi University	10697
10	7731	University of Iringa	19849
11	8412	Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science & Technology	4720
12	9000	Institute of Rural Development Planning	13956
13	9745	State University of Zanzibar	891
14	10162	Hubert Kairuki Memorial University	3484
15	11260	St Joseph University in Tanzania	4856
16	11466	Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology	16973
17	12006	Kampala International University	14302
18	12463	Sumait University	22607
19	13253	Institute of Finance Management	10012
20	13330	Saint Augustine University of Tanzania	10639
21	13580	College of Business Education	1920
22	15906	Institute of Accountancy Arusha	16125
23	15953	Tumaini University Makumira	19206
24	16191	Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College	22400
25	16536	Saint John’s University of Tanzania	21160
26	16578	Zanzibar University	21962
27	16654	Dar es Salaam University College of Education	18270
28	16968	Moshi Co-operative University	21707
29	17157	Mount Meru University	25288
30	17350	Mwenge Catholic University	2120
31	17477	Mbeya University of Science & Technology	22144
32	17731	International Medical & Technological University	20816
33	18068	Muslim University of Morogoro	23011
34	19033	Teofilo Kisanji University	21363
35	19252	Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy	19909
36	19388	Arusha Technical College	17600
37	19535	Sebastian Kolowa Memorial University	22482
38	20166	University of Arusha	19262
39	20184	United African University of Tanzania	4773
40	20825	Jordan University College	19084
41	20861	St Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences	23213
42	20891	Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College	20527
43	20945	Ruaha Catholic University	18029
44	21032	Tumaini University Stefano Moshi Memorial University College	24043
45	21278	University of Bagamoyo UoB Dar es Salaam	22359
46	21431	Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora	22621
47	21431	Stella Maris Mtwara University College	26001
48	22137	Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health	24298
49	23025	Josiah Kibira University Colleg