The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) is the only organisation that produces an academic rating of all universities in the world without depending on surveys or university data submissions to evaluate the standard of instruction, alumni employment, faculty quality, and research output.
The 2023 edition enlisted 20,531 institutions who were evaluated, and the top 2000 were included in the list.
The Methodology used in the Rankings by CWUR
CWUR ranks the world’s universities based on seven reliable, objective measures divided into four categories:
1) Education: based on alumni of a university’s academic excellence, as evaluated by the proportion of graduates who have received prominent academic awards to the size of the university (25%).
2) Employability: determined by the professional performance of a university’s graduates, and quantified by the proportion of graduates who have held executive positions at significant firms in relation to the size of the university (25%)
3) Faculty: evaluated by the percentage of professors who have received prestigious academic awards (10%).
4) Analysis:
i) Research Output is determined by the overall research papers produced (10%).
ii) High-Quality Publications: gauged by the percentage of research papers that are published in prestigious journals (10%).Influence is determined by the percentage of research papers that are published in highly influential journals (10%).
iv) Citations: gauged by the percentage of research papers with a high number of citations.
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The Rankings of Ghanaian Universities
The University of Ghana took first place in Ghana with a score of an outstanding 69.1. The University of Ghana’s outstanding performance placed it as the second-best university in the West Africa Region, only behind Nigeria’s University of Ibadan, which had a score of 69.5.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) ranked second best in Ghana with a score of 68.4. These two Ghanaian universities were the only ones enlisted.
Brief Background of Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)
The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) has been providing academic rankings of international institutions since 2012. These rankings evaluate the quality of faculty, research, employability, and education without relying on surveys or university data submissions.
The ranking began as a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the objective of rating the best 100 colleges in the world. Universities and the media published it fast all around the world, and many demands to expand it came in.
The rating became the largest academic ranking of international institutions in 2019 when it expanded to include the top 2000 universities out of about 20,000 worldwide.
