KNUST ranked as Best University in West Africa
Accra, Nov. 12, GNA – The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been ranked as the best university in Ghana and West Africa by the United States News and World Report.
The report also ranked the KNUST the 14th best on the African Continent and 706th best University globally.
A statement issued by the KNUST and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the 86-year-old organisation based in Washington D.C. is known for ranking and evaluating universities based on their research performance and its ratings by members of the academic community around the world and in its region.
It said the ranking according to US News and World Report are produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally so that prospective students would make best choices.
“It, therefore, focuses specifically on the institution’s academic research and overall reputation. The overall best global universities rankings encompass the top 1,500 institutions spread across 81 countries globally,” it said.
“The first step in producing these rankings, which are powered by Clarivate Analytics Incites, involved creating a pool of 1,599 Universities that is used to rank the top 1,500 schools”.
It said the second step is to calculate the rankings using the 13 indicators and weights that US News chose to measure global research performance.
It said each of the 1,500 top-ranked university’s profile pages on usnews.com lists the overall global score as well as numerical ranks for the 13 indicators, allowing students, academics and university leaders to compare each university’s standing in each indicator.
It said these indicators include; global research reputation, regional research reputation, publications, books authored, conference papers, normalised citation impact, total citations, number of publications that were among the 10 per cent most cited, percentage of total publications that were among the 10 per cent most cited, international collaboration – relative to country, international collaboration, number of highly cited papers that were among the top one per cent most cited in their respective field, percentage of total publications that were among the top one per cent most highly cited papers, and general reputation.
“With a global score of 42.4, KNUST had a global reputation for research of 1,044, regional research reputation of 21. It also obtained 1,572 publications, 1,189 books, 1,444 conferences, 33 normalisation citation impact and a total citation of 1,0409,” it said.
The statement said KNUST attained 949 percentage of total publications that are among the 10 per cent most cited, 381 international collaborations – relative to country, and 15 International collaborations.
It said this latest ranking projects KNUST as the best University for teaching, learning and research in Ghana and West Africa as whole.
The US News and World Report is a multi-platform publisher of news and information, which includes; annual print and e-book versions of its authoritative rankings of Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools and Best Hospitals in the World.