Times Higher Education (THE) has ranked the University of Cape Town (UCT) fifty-fifth in its 2022 list of the most international universities in the world, making it the only African university on the list.

UCT ranks fifty-fifth with Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University in the US and was selected owing to its collaboration on research across the world, having a strong global reputation and its large contingent of international students and staff.

“We value our internationalisation and its many facets – more than can be encompassed in a single measurement. We also recognise that in our current context – more than ever – these international connections and the shared knowledge and collaboration that they enable will help to ensure that, as a society, we address and resolve the most complex challenges of our time,” said UCT Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation Professor Sue Harrison.

The University of Hong Kong took first place in the THE ranking, ETH Zurich took second place, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology tied for third.

Only those institutions that received 100 votes or more in the international reputation survey and at least 50 votes, or 10%, of the available domestic votes are eligible for inclusion on the list.