THE ranks UCC best university in Ghana, West Africa & Africa’s 7th

Cape Coast-based University of Cape Coast (UCC) has maintained its top spot of being Ghana’s best university in the 2024 edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings released annually.

Not only was Cape Coast University (UCC) rated the best university in Ghana but it was also ranked 1st in West Africa and 7th in Africa. The 2024 World University Rankings include 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions.

The management of the University of Cape Coast following the achievement in a blog post sighted by AcademicWeek has commended students, teaching and non-teaching staff for their enormous contribution to the success.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 include 1,904 universities countries and regions.

The table is based on Times Higher Education 2024 ranking’s new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

This year’s ranking analyzed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally. Overall, they collected 411,789 data points from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.

The Times Higher Education World Universities Ranking is trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments, and industry experts, the 2024 league table reveals how the global higher education landscape is shifting.