ITS Research Intelligence
Morocco University Research Rankings
Compare Morocco universities using recent research output, citation impact, growth and a transparent research-performance score.
Research landscape
The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 52 index-ready universities in Morocco. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 3,470 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 15,175. The average publication-growth signal is 94.9%. These figures describe the institutions that pass the public quality gate; they are not intended to represent every tertiary institution in the country.
Country rankings are useful for benchmarking because they reduce some of the structural differences that make global comparisons difficult. They still should not be treated as a complete assessment of institutional quality: teaching, student outcomes, funding levels, research field mix and institutional mission are outside this research-performance score. The value of the page is in seeing who is producing research, how that activity is changing, and where citation visibility is concentrated.
Top research universities in Morocco
| Rank | University | Country | Score | 5-year works | 5-year citations | Growth |
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| #1 | Mohammed V University | Morocco | 81.1 | 26,721 | 98,077 | 18.9% |
| #2 | University of Hassan II Casablanca | Morocco | 78.7 | 16,688 | 73,518 | 19.9% |
| #3 | Cadi Ayyad University | Morocco | 76.9 | 13,619 | 57,685 | 5.3% |
| #4 | Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University | Morocco | 76.7 | 16,360 | 74,151 | 14.0% |
| #5 | Université Ibn-Tofail | Morocco | 75.0 | 12,137 | 46,784 | 25.9% |
| #6 | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique | Morocco | 74.8 | 8,822 | 69,480 | 29.4% |
| #7 | Université Ibn Zohr | Morocco | 74.4 | 9,858 | 50,381 | 25.3% |
| #8 | Mohamed I University | Morocco | 74.0 | 9,247 | 34,654 | 9.2% |
| #9 | Abdelmalek Essaâdi University | Morocco | 73.2 | 11,184 | 39,598 | 17.7% |
| #10 | Université Sultan Moulay Slimane | Morocco | 72.0 | 8,132 | 37,377 | 32.9% |
| #11 | Chouaib Doukkali University | Morocco | 71.3 | 6,170 | 29,544 | 25.5% |
| #12 | Université Moulay Ismail de Meknes | Morocco | 71.0 | 6,838 | 36,859 | -3.3% |
| #13 | Instituts Supérieurs des Professions Infirmières et Techniques de Santé | Morocco | 69.4 | 2,900 | 11,352 | 225.3% |
| #14 | Université Hassan 1er | Morocco | 68.3 | 4,827 | 18,901 | 18.7% |
| #15 | Université Hassan II Mohammedia | Morocco | 67.8 | 2,512 | 13,856 | 57.2% |
| #16 | Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes | Morocco | 65.6 | 1,461 | 10,992 | 103.2% |
| #17 | International University of Rabat | Morocco | 64.6 | 2,004 | 18,739 | 16.7% |
| #18 | École Nationale d'Agriculture de Meknès | Morocco | 64.3 | 1,490 | 6,055 | 114.7% |
| #19 | Université Mohammed VI des Sciences et de la Santé | Morocco | 63.3 | 2,085 | 5,213 | 106.0% |
| #20 | École Supérieure des Industries du Textile et de l'Habillement | Morocco | 62.2 | 1,668 | 1,343 | 1,620.5% |
| #21 | Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs | Morocco | 62.0 | 1,897 | 9,435 | -10.4% |
| #22 | Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II | Morocco | 60.6 | 1,390 | 5,457 | -3.3% |
| #23 | Al Akhawayn University | Morocco | 59.3 | 994 | 5,233 | 21.5% |
| #24 | École Normale Supérieure de l'Enseignement Technique de Mohammedia | Morocco | 57.6 | 840 | 5,729 | -13.3% |
| #25 | Sup de Co Marrakech | Morocco | 57.3 | 1,160 | 1,952 | 25.6% |
| #26 | National School of Business and Management in Settat | Morocco | 54.3 | 674 | 1,573 | 27.8% |
| #27 | National School of Architecture | Morocco | 54.3 | 766 | 2,240 | 48.6% |
| #28 | École Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion de Tanger | Morocco | 54.1 | 783 | 1,413 | 34.7% |
| #29 | National School of Mineral Industry | Morocco | 53.8 | 492 | 2,570 | 37.6% |
| #30 | Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications | Morocco | 53.7 | 611 | 1,953 | -17.4% |
| #31 | Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine | Morocco | 53.1 | 1,504 | 1,000 | -1.6% |
| #32 | Hassania School of Public Works | Morocco | 52.7 | 500 | 2,725 | 6.0% |
| #33 | Universiapolis - Université Internationale d'Agadir | Morocco | 51.8 | 241 | 855 | 166.0% |
| #34 | École Normale Supérieure Casablanca | Morocco | 51.4 | 283 | 1,893 | 62.4% |
| #35 | École Marocaine des Sciences de l'Ingénieur | Morocco | 51.3 | 250 | 888 | 145.6% |
| #36 | Institut National de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée | Morocco | 49.7 | 262 | 1,028 | -8.8% |
| #37 | École Normale Supérieure de Tétouan | Morocco | 49.7 | 336 | 821 | 22.1% |
| #38 | ESCA Ecole de Management | Morocco | 48.7 | 211 | 1,245 | 52.2% |
| #39 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales | Morocco | 48.5 | 208 | 268 | 134.0% |
| #40 | Université Privée de Fès | Morocco | 46.6 | 208 | 1,475 | 20.0% |
| #41 | École Normale Supérieure - Marrakech | Morocco | 46.5 | 207 | 465 | 6.0% |
| #42 | Institut Supérieur d'Études Maritimes | Morocco | 46.5 | 206 | 896 | 62.1% |
| #43 | Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication | Morocco | 46.4 | 128 | 188 | 304.8% |
| #44 | Institut Supérieur de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises | Morocco | 45.4 | 373 | 615 | -9.2% |
| #45 | Université Internationale de Casablanca | Morocco | 45.1 | 138 | 600 | 111.4% |
| #46 | École de Gouvernance et d'Économie de Rabat | Morocco | 44.2 | 195 | 69 | 287.9% |
| #47 | École Royale Navale | Morocco | 43.8 | 100 | 732 | 21.9% |
| #48 | Institut des Hautes Études de Management | Morocco | 43.4 | 114 | 271 | 109.4% |
| #49 | École des Sciences de I'information | Morocco | 43.2 | 173 | 449 | 46.4% |
| #50 | Institute For Leadership And Communication Studies | Morocco | 41.7 | 267 | 20 | 763.6% |
| #51 | Institut Supérieur du Génie Appliqué | Morocco | 39.7 | 126 | 400 | -17.7% |
| #52 | École Supérieure de Psychologie | Morocco | 37.2 | 100 | 72 | 16.7% |
Transparent methodology
How ITS Research Score v2 is constructed
Every index-ready institution has a base score from recent output, citations, h-index, i10-index and publication growth. After deep enrichment completes, ITS Research Score v2 uses six dimensions: 25% output strength, 30% Research Impact Score, 20% Momentum Score, 10% international-collaboration share, 5% open-access share and 10% topic-diversity signal. Output and citation-scale terms are log-normalized to reduce domination by the largest universities.
Research Impact Score combines citation intensity, h-index, two-year mean citedness when available and i10 visibility. It is intentionally not called field-normalized impact. International collaboration is based on recent works with authors from more than one country. Research diversity is an entropy-based summary of the institution’s leading topic signals, not a department count.
These indicators assess research activity only. They do not measure teaching quality, student experience, employability, reputation, finances or accreditation. Missing data are left missing rather than fabricated.