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:
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 .