Rabat – The Mohammed I University (UMP) in Oujda in northeast Morocco has once again distinguished itself in the international Shanghai Ranking for 2022, earning first place nationally and ranking in the world’s Top 400 in physics.
UMP was ranked among the top 400 universities in the world and first nationally in the “Physics” category, the university said in a press release, noting that this ranking crowned efforts made by stakeholders to promote excellence in several fields.
The ranking, the same source pointed out, is based on several criteria relating to the quality of education, the quality of the institution, published research, and the percentage of success.
These include the number of Nobel Prize-winning alumni and staff, the number of highly qualified researchers, the number of articles published in academic journals, articles indexed in the Science Citation Index and academic performance in relation to the size of the institution, it added.
In 2022, US News & World Report declared in a calculation they made for the 2022-23 best global universities that UMP ranked first in higher education in Morocco.
More than 1,750 colleges and other higher education institutions from around the world, including 66 from Africa, were reviewed for the ranking.
Globally, UMP came in at number 630, followed by Hassan II University in Casablanca in the 779th place, then Mohammed V University in Rabat (940th), and Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech (963th).
According to the same source, the UMP ranked 18th in Africa out of 40 universities for 2022.
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