How UCC toppled UG to become best varsity in Ghana

The University of Cape Coast in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings has been ranked 4th in Africa, first in the West African subregion and Ghana for that matter.

The University’s nearest 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 the University of Cape Coast is featured in the rankings, becoming the first to attain the position as well as the first university in Ghana to ever achieve this position since the commencement of the Times Higher Education Annual rankings some two decades ago.

Meanwhile, the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) and the Directorate of Public Affairs will jointly hold a series of events and media campaigns to commemorate the sterling performance of UCC in the rankings.

In April 2021, University of Ghana, Legon, emerged the sole Ghanaian varsity to be named in the last ranking.

More than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories were included in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.

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

This year’s ranking examined over 108 million citations from over 14.4 million academic papers, as well as survey answers from over 22,000 researchers worldwide.

Over 430,000 datapoints were gathered from more than 2,100 institutions that provided data.



This year’s league table, which is trusted globally by students, instructors, governments, and industry professionals, shows how the Covid-19 epidemic has begun to alter global higher education achievement.

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

In September 2020, the Director of DRIC constituted a committee with the singular mandate of ensuring that we participate fully in the 2022 THE WUR rankings.

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