3. South Africa: South Africa comes third because university professors working in the public universities bag an average of $ 6,531 per month.  However, according to the “PUNCH” website some Nigerian professors who reacted to the report claimed that the study did not reveal the general earnings of a professor. But, later they admitted that the new merged salaries in federal universities, the estimated earnings may be almost the same as mentioned in the report, since some of the most senior professors receive about N600,000 per month. The best public institutions in South Africa are University of Cape Town, University of Fort Hare and Rhodes University.