The University of Nairobi (UoN) has been named the best institution in Kenya and East Africa, in the latest ranking by Webometrics.
The university has also been ranked 8th in Africa and position 775 globally, in the ranking that covered more than 24,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide.
Various parameters were used to rank the universities, with UoN being ranked 11th in the presence parameter, 785 in the visibility parameter and 910 in the transparency or openness parameter which reflects the number of citations from top authors according to the source.
The university's excellence or scholar parameter was ranked 1513.
Moi and Egerton universities took position two and three in the country, with Uganda's Makerere University being ranked second in East Africa.
Harvard University was ranked the best in the world.