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Rabat – The 2022 CWTS Leiden ranking for best universities worldwide included Morocco’s University of Mohammed V (UM5) in Rabat and Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.
The latest report notes that the Rabat-based university made 1138 publications in the fields of education between 2017 and 2020, while the Marrakech-based university submitted 921.
In the global ranking, Mohammed V university occupies the 1064th position while the Cadi Ayyad university is at the 1208th place.
American and Chinese universities dominate the top ranking, with Harvard being the best university, followed by Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the University of Toronto, and Tsinghua University.
The countries with the highest number of ranked universities are China with 247, followed by the US (242), the UK (65), Japan (56), Germany (54), the Republic of Korea (49), and India (49).
The CWTS Leiden Ranking is an annual global universities ranking that features 1030 universities from 69 countries, including 29 Arab universities and 33 African universities.
CWTS’s report is based on three indicators relating to research, namely the scientific impact of the publication, open access publication, and the international and gender approach in the author’s publications.
This year, the UM5 improved its ranking in the three indicators compared to the previous year, according to a statement from the university.
The University is the first Moroccan higher education institution to appear on the CWTS Leiden ranking of last year.
The Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden Ranking is affiliated with the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and has been evaluating the performances of the best universities worldwide since 2007.
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