| # | University | City | World rank | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Zimbabwe | #0 | 578,910 | |
| 2 | National University of Science and Technology Bulawayo | #0 | 120,828 | |
| 3 | Great Zimbabwe University | #0 | 19,852 | |
| 4 | Catholic University in Zimbabwe | #0 | 974 | |
| 5 | Reformed Church University | #0 | 889 | |
| 6 | Solusi University | #0 | 559 | |
| 7 | Midlands State University | not ranked | 41,264 | |
| 8 | Chinhoyi University of Technology | not ranked | 39,235 | |
| 9 | Bindura University of Science Education | not ranked | 33,864 | |
| 10 | Africa University | not ranked | 14,296 | |
| 11 | Harare Institute of Technology | not ranked | 8,931 | |
| 12 | Zimbabwe Open University | not ranked | 8,152 | |
| 13 | Lupane State University | not ranked | 7,310 | |
| 14 | Women's University in Africa | not ranked | 3,415 | |
| 15 | Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University | not ranked | 1,201 |
What the two columns mean
World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.
The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.