The University of Nairobi (UoN) has once again firmly established its position as a leading institution in the global academic landscape by emerging among the world’s top 2000 Universities in the latest rankings released on 16th May 2023, by the Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR). UoN's secured a commendable ranking of 1,425th.

From the rankings, UoN's employability rank remains competitive, thus speaking to the university's success in preparing students for the professional world.

CWUR evaluated 62 million outcomes-based data points to assess universities globally based on four factors: quality of education (25 percent), employability (25 percent), quality of faculty (10 percent), and research performance (40 percent). These measurements were conducted without relying on surveys and data submissions from universities. The rankings encompassed 20,531 universities.

In Africa, the top ten universities include Cape Town (267th), Witwatersrand (290th), Stellenbosch (450th), KwaZulu-Natal (478th), Cairo (520th), Pretoria (557th), Johannesburg (628th), Ain Shams (772nd), Addis Ababa (862nd), and North-West (887th)

The top 10 universities on the list are predominantly from the United States, with 332 institutions featured. Harvard remains the world's leading university. It is followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. Among the top ten, Cambridge and Oxford from the United Kingdom are the only non-US universities, occupying the fourth and fifth positions, respectively.