Shabir Moosa is registered for a PhD at Ghent University.He hopes colleagues at Wits will not deprecate a PhD from Ghent. Ghent University rises from place 85 to 70 in the recently published Shanghai ranking, an impressive increase. Again Ghent University has the highest score of all Belgian universities in this world ranking of universities….more.  Wits is quite happy to be ranked 201-300 in this list.