Times Higher Education Rankings 2023, has announced the University of Cape Coast (UCC) as the finest university in Ghana, first in West Africa, and fourth in Africa.
The news was made in the Times Higher Education annual rankings for 2023.
The institution was named the top university in Ghana, the best in West Africa, the fourth greatest university in Africa, and the best university in the world for research influence in the 2022 ranking.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 featured 1,799 universities from 104 nations and regions, making it the most comprehensive and diversified university ranking to date.
The ranking is based on 13 meticulously calibrated performance measures that assess a university’s performance in four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international view.
This year’s rating examined over 121 million citations from over 15.5 million academic articles, as well as survey answers from 40,000 experts worldwide. In total, over 680,000 points were collected from over 2,500 institutions that contributed data.
This year’s league table, which is trusted worldwide by students, professors, governments, and industry professionals, demonstrates how the global higher education scene is changing.
For the seventh year in a row, the University of Oxford topped the rankings. Harvard University remains second, but the University of Cambridge has risen from fifth to third place in the recent year.
Humanitas University in Italy is the highest new entry, ranking 201-250.
With 177 institutions, the United States is the most represented country overall, as well as the most represented in the top 200.
Mainland China now boasts the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 and has surpassed Australia, which has slid to fifth (joint with the Netherlands).
For the first time, five African countries have entered the leaderboard (Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mauritius).
Harvard leads the teaching pillar, while Oxford leads the research pillar. The Macau University of Science & Technology sits atop the international pillar.
There are 1,799 universities ranked in all. A further 526 universities have “reporter” status, which means they contributed data but did not match the eligibility criteria for a rank, but agreed to be included in the final ranking as a reporter.
