@ Sasha,for starters,USIU is not ranked.

Then don't forget that Khartoum is actually in the 'rich' arab North and is a state university.

I think as a CEO with many things on my mind,I would rather go to a no frills (no brain racking projects,assignments e.t.c) university like USIU to suit their status and Honolulu kind of lifestyle. And to contradict myself a little,such a class laden with bigshots,may be good because people may bring in divergent perspectives in class discussions. But in general that doesnt make that University a place of choice.

If you have to go to private uni,perhaps Strathmore or Catholic Uni are the places to be. Daystar from a distance .............just maybe and only during the Day. In Strath and Catho students actually fail if they play around. Catholic church educationists have a keen eye on quality and you will see this in the way Kianda,St. Mary's,PBs,Strathmore and many more schools where this church has a heavy hand are run.

What I wonder is why Strathmore has to charge so highly yet the Opus Dei prelature has always been able to get funding for almost every other project from sources such as the EU and Italian government. In fact the set up of the Madaraka campus was financed by the EU (EC then),with the Italian government throwing in the fittings. And if I'm not wrong,the Spanish government (read the Opus Dei link) has also thrown in quite some over the years.



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About this ranking

The original aim of the Ranking was to promote Web publication,not to rank institutions. Supporting Open Access initiatives,electronic access to scientific publications and to other academic material are our primary targets. However web indicators are very useful for ranking purposes too as they are not based on number of visits or page design but global performance and visibility of the universities.

As other rankings focused only on a few relevant aspects,specially research results,web indicators based ranking reflects better the whole picture,as many other activities of professors and researchers are showed by their web presence.

The Web covers not only only formal (e-journals,repositories) but also informal scholarly communication. Web publication is cheaper,maintaining the high standards of quality of peer review processes. It could also reach much larger potential audiences,offering access to scientific knowledge to researchers and institutions located in developing countries and also to third parties (economic,industrial,political or cultural stakeholders) in their own community.

The Webometrics ranking has a larger coverage than other similar rankings (see table below). The ranking is not only focused on research results but also in other indicators which may reflect better the global quality of the scholar and research institutions worldwide.

We intend to motivate both institutions and scholars to have a web presence that reflect accurately their activities. If the web performance of an institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence,university authorities should reconsider their web policy,promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality of their electronic publications.

Candidate students should use additional criteria if they are trying to choose university. webometrics Ranking correlates well with quality of education provided and academic prestige,but other non-academic variables need to be taken into account.

So with the sub standard web content,numerous spelling mistakes on our public university websites and the fact that 80% of the time,you need fibre optic connectivity to get through to their website coupled with No response to online enquiries,our six public lunee bins still made it to the top 100....pheeewwww!



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Some of you guys are apparently very bitter,it is the same world over. It is who and what you know. Make the right contacts and develop the skills that can fullyt exploit those conatcts. Doesn't really matter if it's Strath,USIU or THE.

At the end of the day,what matters is did you go through school or did it go through you.

Networking is key world,dats a FACT,lakini hii bitterness imetoka wapi jameni!

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Whether you bought it or you coughed it it will still dawn on you that you are not capable and this will show anyway.

I still beleive in THE either way those who don't are just making excuses as usual as they did not make it to THE. Take it or leave it


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forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.