University of Dar Es Salaam
| Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam (Swahili) | |
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Former names
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University College, Dar es Salaam |
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| Motto | Hekima ni Uhuru (Swahili) |
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Motto in English
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Wisdom is Freedom |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1970 |
| Vice-Chancellor | Rwekaza Mukandala |
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Academic staff
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1,045 |
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Administrative staff
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1,023 |
| Students | 19,650 |
| Undergraduates | 17,098 |
| Postgraduates | 2,552 |
| Location |
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Coordinates: 6°46′50″S 39°12′12″E / 6.78056°S 39.20333°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | AAU, ACU, IAU |
| Website | udsm |
The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is a public university in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It was established in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London. The university became an affiliate of the University of East Africa (UEA) in 1963, shortly after Tanzania gained its independence from the United Kingdom. In 1970, UEA split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Dar es Salaam.
In 2012, the University Ranking by Academic Performance Center ranked the University of Dar es Salaam as the 1,618th best university in the world (out of 2,000 ranked universities).
In 2013, AcademyRank ranked the university as the 2,965th best university worldwide (out of 9,803 ranked universities) but the best of the 16 ranked in Tanzania, with the Sokoine University of Agriculture in second place.
In 2012, the Scimago Institutions Rankings placed the university in 3,021st place worldwide (out of 3,290 ranked institutions), 57th in Africa, and second in Tanzania behind the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. This ranking is based on the total number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in the Scopus database by Elsevier. Based solely on the university's "excellence rate", the university was ranked 16th out of 62 universities in Africa in 2011. This rate "indicates which percentage of an institution's scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of high quality output of research institutions".
In July 2012, Webometrics ranked the university as the 1,977th best university worldwide based on its web presence (an assessment of the scholarly contents, visibility, and impact of the university on the web) but the best in Tanzania, with the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University far behind in second place.
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