Top 10 Best Universities In Africa 2020.

10 ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY- ETHIOPIA.
Starting this list is the Addis Ababa University or AAU which was founded on March 30 1950 by Lucien Matte. The Addis Ababa University is a large and highly residential national university in Ethiopia. The is the oldest school of higher education in this country, it has 13 campuses, twelve of which are situated in Addis Ababa and one is located in BISHOFTU about 45 kilometers away. This university is associated with several research institutions including the institute of Ethiopians studies. Over and above their academic pursuits, AAU students have been actively engaged in community service and political struggle, particularly in the years before the 1974 revolution, in the late 1960s and early 1970s; their students were required to do a year of national service under the Ethiopian university service program. University teachers and students were instrumental in exposing the hidden 1973 famine and launching the first famine relief program. Almost all leaders of the political organizations that were active in the revolution years or in power now and they had their political formation inside the university. The University of Addis Ababa currently is the 10th best university in Africa and 553rd in the world with a score of 48.5.

9. MANSOURA UNIVERSITY – Egypt.
Mansoura University was founded in 1972 and is located at the middle of the Nile Delta in Egypt. It is one of the biggest Egyptian Universities. The university has 18 faculties with different departments. It also has 2,500 academic staff including 3,000 undergraduate students and 2,500 post graduate students. The university has multiple facilities like research center, laboratories, library center and e-learning center. It also has hospitals like, Urology and nephrology center, specialized medical hospital, emergency hospital, oncology center and many others. This university has contributed much to the cultural and scientific life in Mansoura and Egypt. The faculty of medicine was founded in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University. In 2008, the MANSOURA SAURUS a genus of herbivorous Lithostorotian sauropod dinosaur had been discovered by a team under Mansoura University Paleontologist, HESHAM SALLAM and was named after the university. The university has been extremely instrumental in the economic, social-political, and educational environment in Egypt and Africa, hence gaining its position amongst the best by ranking 547th globally.

8. UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN NIGERIA.
Established in 1948 as university college Ibadan and later became an independent university in 1963. It is the oldest degree awarding institution in Nigeria. The University of Ibadan, fondly referred to as UNIBADAN, was the first university in Nigeria and started with just three departments, that’s the department of Medicine, sciences and ARTS. But today it can boast of 13 faculties including, the faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Renewable natural Resources, social sciences, technology, law and many others. This is a world class institution for academic excellence geared towards meeting societal needs. They have a mission to expand the frontiers of knowledge through provision of excellent conditions for learning and research. This university is known as the first and the best university in Nigeria because it has maintained its stellar academic repute over the years, all be it with recent frictions between the students and the management of the school. This prestigious university is located in Oyo state Nigeria and has residential and sports facilities for staff and students on campus, as well as separate botanical and zoological gardens which houses endangered animals and plants. It continues to be one of the highly aspired universities in the continent with local and international applicants every year.