Top South African Universities on Twitter
2018 Twitter University Ranking 
Introduction
What are the most popular South African Universities on Twitter? uniRank tries to answer this question by publishing the 2018 Twitter University Ranking of all South African higher-education institutions on Twitter meeting the following uniRank selection criteria:
- being chartered, licensed and/or accredited by the appropriate South African higher education-related organization
- offering at least four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor degrees) or postgraduate degrees (master or doctoral degrees)
- delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, face-to-face, non-distance education format
South African Universities on Twitter
| Rank | Followers |
University |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 173,988 | University of Cape Town  |
| 2 | 80,073 | University of the Witwatersrand |
| 3 | 63,317 | Universiteit Stellenbosch |
| 4 | 35,672 | University of Johannesburg |
| 5 | 23,900 | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| 6 | 21,447 | Nelson Mandela University |
| 7 | 19,398 | Universiteit van die Vrystaat |
| 8 | 17,261 | North-West University |
| 9 | 12,003 | University of the Western Cape |
| 10 | 11,859 | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| 11 | 10,880 | University of Venda |
| 12 | 10,630 | University of Limpopo |
| 13 | 10,363 | Tshwane University of Technology |
| 14 | 9,446 | Rhodes University |
| 15 | 8,871 | Durban University of Technology |
| 16 | 5,354 | Vaal University of Technology |
| 17 | 5,198 | University of Fort Hare |
| 18 | 4,739 | Central University of Technology |
| 19 | 4,467 | University of Zululand |
| 20 | 2,920 | Mangosuthu University of Technology |
| 21 | 2,682 | Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University |
| 22 | 2,190 | Walter Sisulu University |
Notice: the total number of followers of the above Twitter pages have been extracted in August 2018.
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