{"id":156781,"date":"2015-10-03T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=156781"},"modified":"2015-10-02T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:05:24","slug":"university-of-ghana-ranked-among-worlds-top-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=156781","title":{"rendered":"University of Ghana ranked among World&#8217;s top universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The University of Ghana has been placed in the band of 601- 800 institutions worldwide, according to a release by the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;CUlhe2MkSAEq76tNJZpYnM5anTLlAQJv&#8221;]The ranking places the University of Ghana ahead of its peers in the country as it has become a force to be reckoned with on the continent and on the global front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are generated from five pillars, each of which represents a key area of higher education excellence &#8211; teaching (the learning environment), research (volume, income and reputation), citations (research influence), industry income (knowledge transfer), and international outlook (staff, students and research).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a University keen on enhancing internationalization, it is welcome news that the University of Ghana\u2019s strongest pillar was International Outlook where its was ranked in the 5th decile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June this year, the Thompson Reuters rankings placed the University of Ghana at the tenth position among tertiary institution on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The continued upward mobility of the University of Ghana in world rankings is an attestation of the University\u2019s quest to become a world-class research intensive university over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: UG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Ghana has been placed in the band of 601- 800 institutions worldwide, according to a release by the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;CUlhe2MkSAEq76tNJZpYnM5anTLlAQJv&#8221;]The ranking places the University of Ghana ahead of its peers in the country as it has become a force to be reckoned with on the continent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":63237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-156781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}