although uz has not generally featured in major international rankings such as the times higher education supplement qs world university rankings or the academic ranking of world universities, the world universities ranking placed the university number 14 in africa in 2007, after various south african universities, the american university in cairo and the university of dar-es-salaam, and number 3,549 out of 9,760 accredited universities in the world. by 2008, uz had slid to number 17 in africa and number 4,001 globally. in 2010, according to university ranking by academic performance (urap), university of zimbabwe is the best university in zimbabwe and 1340th university in the world.