The Best Universities in Kenya
May 3rd, 2009 by GCR Editor
We’ve only looked at one African university system previously, so let’s now look at another.
What can Google tell us about the rankings of universities in Kenya? As a former British colony, Kenya has a strong English-speaking community. If we begin with an English-language search of google.co.ke for the word university, this is the top-ten list we get:
- University of Nairobi
- Moi University
- Kenyatta University
- Maseno University
- Egerton University
- Strathmore University
- Maseno University
- Catholic University of Eastern Africa
- United States International University
- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
This list demonstrates one of the advantages of our custom bio-neural filtering system also. Both Strathmore University and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa are located in Nairobi, but they happen to have registered their websites under .edu domains rather than .ac.ke domains. An automated system might mistakenly include them in U.S. rankings and exclude them from Kenyan rankings.
Google does permits us to search in Kiswahili, where the usual word for university is chuo kikuu. But because the Kenyan higher-education sector is so dominated by English, this search turns up very little in the way of rankable university listings (although it does identify many top universities in Tanzania, where chuo kikuu is a common textual designator).