University of Ghana ranked best in Ghana, 11th in Sub-Saharan Africa

The University of Ghana (UG) has been ranked the best tertiary institution in Ghana in the January 2022 Webometrics Rankings and the World Scientific Index for 2022 by the Alper-Doger (AD) Scientific Index. 

Webometrics places the University of Ghana as first in Ghana, 11th in Sub-Saharan Africa and 1,121 in the world – out of 31,000 Higher Education Institutions from more than 200 countries: 

https://www.webometrics.info/en/Ranking_africa/Sub_saharan_Africa

The 2022 AD Scientific Index, which has more focus on the biophysical sciences, places the University of Ghana as first in Ghana, 15th out of the 2,049 universities in Africa, and at 1,704 out of 14,284 universities surveyed globally. 

Both Webometrics and the AD Scientific Index rank institutions based on their performance across standard indicators of excellence.

These include the quality of education, the quality of faculties within an individual university, international collaborations, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics, the total number of research in the Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index, as well as the number of research articles receiving a high number of citations among others.

UG’s closest rival, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology was ranked 18th in Sub-Saharan Africa ahead of University of Cape Coast which is ranked 40th.

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