Top 800 Global Universities : Legon ranks 601

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BAFOUR. 8 years ago

So,no Centra University?

So,no Centra University?
Eric 8 years ago

That is why they have not and can never invent anything and produce good leaders.Shame to Africans

That is why they have not and can never invent anything and produce good leaders.Shame to Africans
shamu 8 years ago

UG really ranked very high. I was at first think U G will rank around 10,000th. Congratulations

UG really ranked very high. I was at first think U G will rank around 10,000th. Congratulations
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christos christoff 8 years ago

She is a young American University student who together with her friends from US SCHOOL SPENT A SEMESTR AT LEGON.
tHESE ARE HER COMMENTS '1. THE WOMAN JUST PRACTICE PROSTITUTION 2. CLASSROOM IS OVERPOPULATED. 3) PROFFESSOR ...
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She is a young American University student who together with her friends from US SCHOOL SPENT A SEMESTR AT LEGON.
tHESE ARE HER COMMENTS '1. THE WOMAN JUST PRACTICE PROSTITUTION 2. CLASSROOM IS OVERPOPULATED. 3) PROFFESSORS SELL THEIR LECTURE NOTES 4. STIINCKY MALE STUDENTS
FMC 8 years ago

This is serious and humiliating but not surprising.

This is serious and humiliating but not surprising.
GOOD TEACHER 8 years ago

where is ucc?

where is ucc?
RAS ADAMS 8 years ago

i am Ghanaian but when i came to Ghana i was surprise to see so many mushroom private university. Almost all them are into business related courses

i am Ghanaian but when i came to Ghana i was surprise to see so many mushroom private university. Almost all them are into business related courses
Lisa 8 years ago

u paaaaaaa this one to be political matter? stop making unnecessary noise

u paaaaaaa this one to be political matter? stop making unnecessary noise
TIGERE 8 years ago

WHERE IS ABLAKWA,HE MUST COME OUT TO REFUTE THIS RANKING.AND ASK WHY MAKERERE,UGANDAN AND KWA-ZULU,NATAL ARE IN THE SAME RANK.NDC HAS FAILED IN EVERY FIELD,SO THIS IS YOUR BETTER EDUCATION.OMAN GHANA HAS A LONG WAY TO GO.

WHERE IS ABLAKWA,HE MUST COME OUT TO REFUTE THIS RANKING.AND ASK WHY MAKERERE,UGANDAN AND KWA-ZULU,NATAL ARE IN THE SAME RANK.NDC HAS FAILED IN EVERY FIELD,SO THIS IS YOUR BETTER EDUCATION.OMAN GHANA HAS A LONG WAY TO GO.
KWAA 8 years ago

May be The Times report was prepared by the NPP,that is why education in Ghana is in shambles.What a nation we live in.We are destroying our heritage because of politics.Everything is about either NDC or NPP.Legon was once on ...
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May be The Times report was prepared by the NPP,that is why education in Ghana is in shambles.What a nation we live in.We are destroying our heritage because of politics.Everything is about either NDC or NPP.Legon was once one of the best unvercities in Africa if not the World.Today all what comes out from Legon is corrupt.Corrupt Professors,Corrupt Judges,corrupt Lawyers,corrupt Ministers even the undergraduates are corrupt products.
Taabea-Aflao 8 years ago

Where is the Almighty KNUST which once upon a time ranked 1st in Africa.

Where is the Almighty KNUST which once upon a time ranked 1st in Africa.
MINOR CASE 8 years ago

Since the departure of Prof. Allotey. Prof. Bamfo Kwakye ,etc my alma mater has never been the same. I hear KNUST started going downhill when Prof. Kwami took over as Vice Chancellor packing the faculties with fellow nyebros.

Since the departure of Prof. Allotey. Prof. Bamfo Kwakye ,etc my alma mater has never been the same. I hear KNUST started going downhill when Prof. Kwami took over as Vice Chancellor packing the faculties with fellow nyebros.
JM ALL THE WAY 8 years ago

AND SOME SHORT MAN WITH THIRD CLASS FROM THIS UNIVERSITY WANT TO RULE GHANA.THEY PUSHED HIM TO LAW SCHOOL AS HE CLAIM BUT THE LAW SCHOOL REFUSE HIM CERTIFICATE.SO HE PUSH HIMSELF TO PRACTICE WITH A SIBLINGS BORROWED CERTIFIC ...
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AND SOME SHORT MAN WITH THIRD CLASS FROM THIS UNIVERSITY WANT TO RULE GHANA.THEY PUSHED HIM TO LAW SCHOOL AS HE CLAIM BUT THE LAW SCHOOL REFUSE HIM CERTIFICATE.SO HE PUSH HIMSELF TO PRACTICE WITH A SIBLINGS BORROWED CERTIFICATE.AAAAOOOOOOOOOO GHANA HAS ALONG WAY TO GO
Jo 8 years ago

The value of Legon degree is not in question.

The value of Legon degree is not in question.
Balderash 8 years ago

Even though current Legon sucks, rankings distort reality.

Even though current Legon sucks, rankings distort reality.
Kanawu 8 years ago

These rankings are just marketing jibes

These rankings are just marketing jibes
Rastafara"I" 8 years ago

Besides UG, KNUST and UCC...the rest are fake universities

Besides UG, KNUST and UCC...the rest are fake universities
MINOR CASE 8 years ago

That is true.The other so called universities are just souped up high schools.

That is true.The other so called universities are just souped up high schools.
DAGADOO NY NY 8 years ago

No need educating this idiot.He won't understand a thing.Go take a simple basic course in one of those Universities to learn something. Your head is empty.

No need educating this idiot.He won't understand a thing.Go take a simple basic course in one of those Universities to learn something. Your head is empty.
ZEGE 8 years ago

CHECK UR FACTS WELL

CHECK UR FACTS WELL
Noo 8 years ago

They charge so much and are progressively getting worse and worse.

They charge so much and are progressively getting worse and worse.
Yaovi 8 years ago

Short man who can perform is better than your most luckiest vice president who is just moving from country to country

Short man who can perform is better than your most luckiest vice president who is just moving from country to country
Jalil SA 8 years ago

Good people of Ghana i salute you all. Please let us admit and be honest with ourselves to say our institutions of learning particularly Ghana tertiary is below standard. Come to South Africa here and see the infrastructure o ...
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Good people of Ghana i salute you all. Please let us admit and be honest with ourselves to say our institutions of learning particularly Ghana tertiary is below standard. Come to South Africa here and see the infrastructure on campus, the quality of books, the research work done by professors and studnets, books published by professors you will marvel. What do we see in Ghana lazy lecturers who just copy textbooks, recycle information and print out for students as manuals for us to buy. This is unacceptable. It is just a sign of laziness, poor reading culture, chew and poor and extorting money from poor students in the name of lecture notes. Here textbooks are available as well as study guides. Your assignment requires synthesis and analytical thinking not just chew and poor. You are assessed based on your critical thinking and ability to develop concepts to solve problems. Legon of all how many PhD students are they able to produce in each year? Stellenbosh, Wits, University of Johannesburg and university of pretoria are standard universities. Research they carry out are internationally recognised not cut and paste work we do in Ghana ooo.
T'pau 8 years ago

I love that!

I love that!
Mefful 8 years ago

Horrible reporting - so where is Legon? With several other univ in 601 bracket? Is this for celebration?

Horrible reporting - so where is Legon? With several other univ in 601 bracket? Is this for celebration?
Jemi 8 years ago

this is too much 4 Ghana,changing to worst I think.

this is too much 4 Ghana,changing to worst I think.
gaba 8 years ago

Our universities are empty in terms of facilities. In our universities, students get access to only books, by then they have to even buy them. No equipment and all that's necessary for learning is there. All they do is chew a ...
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Our universities are empty in terms of facilities. In our universities, students get access to only books, by then they have to even buy them. No equipment and all that's necessary for learning is there. All they do is chew and poor.

University of science n tech students can't do practicals with equipment only reading. Are those in KNUST doing reading subjects?
In GH, practicals carry low marks.

Can u imagine, whiles I was doing marketing course in T-Poly , we had a computer lessons, but no access to computers? Very shame. We were made to learn just doing the reading of those things.
Computer lessons need not to read, a teacher should just take students to the computer lab, open and start teaching any topic. Anything he wants students to learn should be by playing with the computer and creating those thing on the computer. Eg, you want to teach how to work with Word format, the teacher should just take students to the computer lab. Open Word n ask students to also open, then teach them how to create word format doc.

Not reading in their stupid pamphlet they print from internet and use as teaching notes for money.
gaba 8 years ago

Not only GH varsities but also all our institutions are low in quality.

Not only GH varsities but also all our institutions are low in quality.
AHMED JAMAL 8 years ago

701 not 601

701 not 601
abass yakubu 8 years ago

why is legon and university of south Africa the same position.

why is legon and university of south Africa the same position.
DAGADOO NY NY 8 years ago

Where are you going with this silly ,mischievous, idiotic fabrication? This fabrication has been verified to be false.Only gullible mediocre minds will buy or believe this nonsense.

Where are you going with this silly ,mischievous, idiotic fabrication? This fabrication has been verified to be false.Only gullible mediocre minds will buy or believe this nonsense.
bazine 8 years ago

I think this heading is only to console us as a country. Legon is ranked between 601-800 but not 601.

I think this heading is only to console us as a country. Legon is ranked between 601-800 but not 601.
TJ 8 years ago

Alfa Shaban of Ghanaweb is credited with this article's byline and so deserves opprobrium for sloppy analysis and false reporting. Shaban's 2nd paragraph states, "An analysis of the report showed that UG, Legon was ranked 601 ...
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Alfa Shaban of Ghanaweb is credited with this article's byline and so deserves opprobrium for sloppy analysis and false reporting. Shaban's 2nd paragraph states, "An analysis of the report showed that UG, Legon was ranked 601st of the world's top 800 universities..." but the report shows nothing of the sort.

UG is emphatically NOT ranked 601 out of the 800 universities in the survey. The bottom quartile, those 200 institutions ranked from 601 through 800, are lumped together as rank "601-800". Besides UG, there are 199 other schools with the same ranking. None of these poor performers was given a score in column 6 ("Overall") in the "Performance Breakdown" data. (see https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/-1
To locate the University of Ghana, go to the bottom of the page and select "All" in the "Display" box.)

In the various categories surveyed, UG ranked 184th out of the bottom 200 universities (in other words, 16th from the last of the entire 800 universities)in "Teaching", with a paltry score of 15.6 (Number 1 California Institute of Technology [aka Cal Tech] scored 95.6.)

In Performance Breakdown's 2nd category, "International Outlook", UG scored rather better, tying with one other for 31st place in the bottom quartile, i.e., 631st place overall. (Cal Tech scored 64.0 and Number 2 Oxford scored 94.4.)

In Performance Breakdown's 3rd category, "Research," UG slipped to 51st place among the bottom 200 (651st place overall) with a paltry score of 15.6. (Cal Tech = 97.6)

Performance Breakdown's 4th category is "Citations," and UG dropped even further, to a 2-way tie for 96th place in the bottom quartile (696th place overall), with a score of only 19.5. (Cal Tech = 99.8)

The 5th category among Performance Breakdown is "Industry Income," and UG scored absolutely zero in a 19-way tie for last place. (Cal Tech = 97.8)

Another set of data involved "Key Statistics." One among these was "Student to Staff Ratio," a important indicator of the personalized attention students receive from their instructors. Here, UG only ranks 190th among the bottom 200, or 790/800 overall, with a ratio of 37.5 students per staff member. (Cal Tech = 6.9 students per staff member.)

Last but not least, allow me to cite, among Key Statistics, one more piece of data, that of "International Students." This number represents a school's attractiveness to students from other countries, with a higher number indicating desirability and a lower number representing, at best, disinterest among potential foreign students. In this final category, UG is in a 25-way tie for 134th place among those schools in the 601-800 (4th quartile) category. This represents an overall rank of 734/800. UG's international enrolees represent a mere 2% of its student body. (Cal Tech = 27%).

Clearly, Alfa Shaban's claim that the University of Ghana ranks #601 is either the result of an inability to understand simple lists of numbers, or indicates a laziness in approach toward the subject, or worse (and probably more true) is a deliberate falsification in an attempt to put as good a face as possible on an absolutely dismal result.

Alfa Shaban should immediately be sacked, either for being an idiot, or for being a liar.
Boycott Ecowas 8 years ago

Our education lever is very low because of Rawlings and his crooks and the NDC as a whole

Our education lever is very low because of Rawlings and his crooks and the NDC as a whole
Nana Yaw 8 years ago

Let me use this opportunity to educate people on this ranking. If you have been following these rankings since 2003 (it's a recent phenomenon), you would note that only South African universities have usually been included. I ...
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Let me use this opportunity to educate people on this ranking. If you have been following these rankings since 2003 (it's a recent phenomenon), you would note that only South African universities have usually been included. It used to rank only 500 universities in the world, which didn't mean that the others were bad rather the researchers didn't deem it necessary to include the other countries. It was this year that THE decided to include more African universities as Global Universities. The initial THE ranking for Africa placed UG at 12. Actually, it is good for Ghana and UG as it is a recognition that Ghana has a global university and UG is one. You have to meet certain criteria before you are included in this list of 800 top global universities. Let me also add that this actually the first time UG and a Ghanaian university has made it to this list. Remember there are over 100,000 universities in the world.

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