For the second time running, the University of Cape Coast has been ranked the topmost-ranked University in Ghana and West Africa and it is among the top 5 Universities in Africa in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The University of Cape Coast placed 4th in Africa and the nearest competitor in West Africa was the University of Ibadan.
In Ghana, the University of Cape Coast is trailed by the University of Ghana followed by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and University of Professional Studies
The University of Cape Coast retained its position in the ranking but dropped points to be placed within 351-400.
All ranked institutions have an overall score and 4 pillar scores. However, for each pillar, only institutions ranked in the top 500 overall or the top 500 in this pillar have a publicly visible score.
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.
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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 121 million citations from over 15.5 million academic papers, as well as survey answers from over 40,000 researchers worldwide.
Over 680,000 data points were gathered from more than 2,500 institutions that provided data.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments, and industry experts, this year’s league table reveals how the global higher education landscape is shifting.
For the seventh year in a row, the University of Oxford leads the list, while mainland China now has the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 having overtaken Australia, which has dropped to fifth.
Overall, 1,799 universities are ranked. A further 526 universities are listed with “reporter” status, meaning that they provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank, and agreed to be displayed as a reporter in the final table.
Source: Anthony Sasu Ayisadu/ATLFMNEWS