World's Universities with Real Impact (WURI), a new ranking system established by the Organizing Committee of the Hanseatic League of Universities (HLU) has ranked University of Iringa (UoI) as the first University in East Africa and Third in Africa. The ranking criteria was based on the following aspects; Industrial Applications, Value-Creating, Social Responsibility, Ethics and Integrity, Student Mobility and Openness, Crisis Management and Progress during the Fourth Industrial Revolution.