Makerere University

Kampala
Uganda
+256772452961

Best in History

Best moot court performance of the law school throught out the recorded history (2013-2024)

About the Law School

Makerere University, Kampala ( ; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of nine colleges and one school offering programmes for about 36,000 undergraduates and 4,000 postgraduate. It recently was gutted by fire in September of 2020 and the cause of the fire is yet to be established
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Makerere University as the eighth best university in Africa and the 569th best university worldwide. In the 2020 U.S. News & World Report ranking, Makerere is the highest-ranked university in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016 ranked it as the fourth best university in Africa.Makerere University was alma mater to many post-independence African leaders, including Ugandan president Milton Obote and Tanzanian presidents Julius Nyerere and Benjamin Mkapa. The former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, and Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki are also Makerere alumni.
In the years immediately after Uganda's independence, Makerere University was a focal point for the literary activity that was central to African nationalist culture. Many prominent writers, including Nuruddin Farah, Ali Mazrui, David Rubadiri, Okello Oculi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, John Ruganda, Paul Theroux, Nobel Prize laureate V. S. Naipaul, and Peter Nazareth, were at Makerere University at one point in their writing and academic careers.
Because of student unrest and faculty disenchantment, the university was closed three times between 2006 and 2016. The final time was on 1 November 2016 when President Yoweri Museveni declared it closed indefinitely. The university was reopened in January 2017.

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Actual Ranking
World
NA / 2024,   #173 / 2023
Africa
NA / 2024,   #6 / 2023
Uganda
NA / 2024,   #1 / 2023
Best in the Field (World)
International Media Law
# 5 / 2023
International Criminal Law
# 41 / 2023
Mediation and Negotiations
# 61 / 2023
WTO law
# 63 / 2023
Public International Law
# 72 / 2023
International Arbitration
# 159 / 2023
Best Ranking Ever
Best World
#92 / 2022
Best National
#1 / 2023

Current Ranking

World ranking 2023

N.
Law School
171
Swansea University
flag-GB United Kingdom (UK)
+103
172
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
flag-DE Germany
-22
173
Makerere University
flag-UG Uganda
-35
174
University of Lisbon
flag-PT Portugal
+6
175
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
flag-RO Romania
-
N.
Law School
1
Makerere University
flag-UG Uganda
-
2
Uganda Christian University
flag-UG Uganda
-
3
Islamic University in Uganda
flag-UG Uganda
-

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