Forbes, a popular American Business Magazine has ranked Makerere University the second best institution in Africa that produces high skilled entrepreneurs in the cross-technology industry.
Within Africa, universities from countries with more mature entrepreneurial ecosystems took the top spots. University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University in South Africa held the 1st and 5th spots respectively.
University of Lagos came in 3rd and the University of Nairobi in 4th, representing the startup powerhouses of Nigeria and Kenya.
The only outlier was Makerere University which was the 2nd most productive university in educating entrepreneurs despite Uganda not being one of the top recipient countries for startup capital.
The basis for the ranking was education: where and what the entrepreneurs studied and the highest level of education achieved. Before moving forward with sharing the data, it’s important to note that the report specifically looked at entrepreneurs involved in Africa’s digital transformation
According to Dario Giuliani, the founder of Briter Bridges (a data-driven research company with a pan-emerging markets focus) which provided the data, sharing this information will ignite some more serious conversation around pushing for better and applied tertiary education across the continent of Africa.
