Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Ayman Ashour, yesterday praised the high rankings of Egyptian universities in the Times Higher Education (THE)Interdisciplinary Science Rankings (ISR) 2025.
According to THE, Egypt is the most represented country in Africa, and the seventh most represented nation globally, with 27 institutions. Minister Ashour appreciated the progress achieved by Egyptian universities in the field of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary programmes.
Africa is making its mark at the top of the ISR. It’s number one university is Cairo University in Egypt in 39th place.
Africa matches Europe when it comes to output scores.
The Egyptian universities ranked in THE include Cairo University (39), Mansoura University (67), American University in Cairo (93), Alexandria University (97), Beni-Suef University (111), Suez Canal University (125), and Ain Shams University (169).
Five other African nations are represented in the top 200 of the table: Egypt (seven institutions in top 200), Morocco (three), Ghana (one), Nigeria (one) and Tunisia (one).
There are five African universities in the top 100 and 13 in the top 200.
Overall, Africa has 78 institutions ranked in the ISR, making it the third most-represented continent, behind Asia and Europe. This means that around one tenth of places in the ranking are claimed by African institutions (for comparison, 6.5 per cent of places in the THE World University Rankings are taken by African institutions).
Globally, the United States dominates the top of THE rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology takes the number one spot and Stanford University is in second place, while in total the US occupies seven of the top 10 positions.
In association with Schmidt Science Fellows, the THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings was created to recognise, incentivise, and celebrate interdisciplinary science in higher education across the globe.
Singapore’s National University of Singapore takes third place and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is in ninth position. Meanwhile, Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands is number seven, making it the highest ranked institution in Europe.
California Institute of Technology, Duke University and University of Minnesota are in fourth, fifth and sixth place respectively, while University of California, Santa Barbara is in eighth place and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor takes the tenth spot.
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