The University of Ghana (UG), has once again been named among the world\u2019s most reputable academic institutions.<\/p>\n
The institution was ranked in the band of 601- 800 institutions worldwide, according to a 2016 release by the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings.<\/p>\n
A statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs, Stella Amoah, said the \u201cranking 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are generated from five pillars, each of which represents a key area of higher education excellence \u2013 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
\u201cFor 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,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
University of Ghana was placed 10th<\/sup> on the African continent in June this year by the Thompson Reuters rankings.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘Background’<\/strong><\/p>\n The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual global performance list\u00a0that judge research-intensive universities across all their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The rankings use 13 key calibrated performance indicators to provide a comprehensive and balanced comparison of performance by the featured Universities.<\/p>\n Last year, the University of Ghana was named in the list as the leading West African academic institution and the only one from Ghana.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Ghana (UG), has once again been named among the world\u2019s most reputable academic institutions. The institution was ranked in the band of 601- 800 institutions worldwide, according to a 2016 release by the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings. A statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs, Stella Amoah, said the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[2,11],"tags":[3,619,11999],"class_list":["post-250980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-university-of-ghana","tag-world-ranking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250980","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250980\/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=250980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}