How UCC toppled UG to become Ghana’s best university

University of Cape Coast entrance shot

The University of Cape Coast in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings was ranked 4th in Africa, first in the West African sub-region and in Ghana for that matter.

The university’s closest competitor in Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, was ranked 39th in Africa, followed by the University of Ghana.

This is the first time that the University of Cape Coast has been included in the ranking, becoming the first to achieve the post as well as the first university in Ghana to achieve this post since the Times Higher Education annual ranking began around two decades. .

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor’s Office, the Research, Innovation and Advisory Directorate (DRIC) and the Public Affairs Directorate will jointly organize a series of events and media campaigns to commemorate the excellent performances of the UCC in the ranking.

In April 2021, the University of Ghana, Legon, became the only Ghanaian university to feature in the latest ranking.

More than 1,600 universities in 99 countries and territories have been included in the Times Higher Education 2022 World University Rankings, making it the largest and most diverse university ranking to date.

The graph, based on 13 precisely calibrated performance measures, assesses a university’s performance in four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international perspective.

This year’s ranking examined more than 108 million citations from more than 14.4 million academic articles, as well as responses to surveys from more than 22,000 researchers around the world.

Over 430,000 data points were collected from over 2,100 institutions that provided data.

This year’s ranking, trusted by students, instructors, governments and industry professionals around the world, shows how the Covid-19 epidemic has started to alter the outcomes of global higher education .

For the sixth year in a row, Oxford University tops the list, while mainland China has two top 20 schools for the first time: Peking University and Tsinghua University share 16th position .

In September 2020, the director of the DRIC set up a committee with the sole mandate of ensuring that we fully participate in the THE WUR 2022 ranking.