Office of the Principal

The Accra City Campus contributes to the structural transformation of Ghana and Africa through enhancing the capacities of the human resources needed for the continents accelerated development. With a current Student population of 10,300, inclusive of both local and foreign students from the West African sub-region, we aim at providing excellent teaching and learning conditions to achieve the vision of the University of Ghana of becoming a world-class university by 2024.

We offer students high quality accessible education at the undergraduate level. Students can enroll into first degree programmes in Arts, Business Administration, and the Social Sciences. Our academic faculty from the main university campus are among the best in the country in both research and teaching.  A team of well-trained, highly dedicated, and friendly support staff ensure the smooth running of the campus to the satisfaction of our clients.

We are currently running a hybrid system of teaching using both face-face socially distanced, nose-masked sessions and online zoom lectures, complemented with several online resources including lecture videos, and other online presentations. 

We have improved facilities including a state-of-the-art library, reading rooms, video conferencing facilities, lecture halls fitted with audio-visual equipment, a clinic, 24/7 security, ICT laboratories with servers for ensuring good internet access and data storage, restaurants, and advisory services. Given the central location of the campus, our students have access to other public library facilities, ministries, multi-national organizations, and the business community. We have arrangements with a wide range of hostel facilities that provide convenient accommodation for our students and visitors.

We are here to serve you by making sure you have the best educational learning experience comparable to any other world-class university anywhere on earth. Apply for admission for your children and wards and we shall build their capacities for the future labour market.

We look forward to receiving applications from prospective students, and collaborations from institutions to provide the best educational experience for the African youth.

Thank you/ Merci Beaucoup

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Prof. Yaro Joseph Awetori, Principal Accra City Campus

Mission

We will create a thriving environment that places the Accra City Campus at the forefront of excellence in cross-disciplinary studies and cutting-edge research relevant to both national and global developmental needs.

Core Values

Our core values are:

Integrity; Respect; Loyalty; Commitment; Innovation

History of Accra City Campus

The now University of Ghana Accra City Campus was established in the 1963/1964 academic year as the Accra Workers' College. This academic unit was reborn in the 2003/2004 academic year as the University of Ghana Accra City Campus.

The Accra City Campus was supposed to function based on the logic of meeting the educational needs of workers in the Central Business District (CBD). This follows from the vision of the first president, Kwame Nkrumah, to transform the Ghanaian worker's soft skills and knowledge base using the Accra Workers College. In this regard, the Convention Peoples Party building was given out to meet this critical function. Over time, this objective has been achieved with few workers in Ghana today occupying positions that require degrees not having these. The current generation of job seekers is dominated by degree holders substantiating the claim that the backlog of non-degree holders employed in the 1980s has been cleared. The logic of making higher education accessible to workers in the CBD is no longer tenable since patrons of programs of the ACC come from all regions of the country. The campus offers courses from the Colleges of Humanities and Education leading to the award of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

In 2014 when the collegiate system was introduced, the Accra City Campus (ACC) was temporarily placed under the College of Humanities. The UGACC is currently a semi-autonomous campus unit of the University of Ghana.

Over the years, there has been a progressive increase in relatively younger students from the various Senior High Schools. The latter category of students currently dominates the patrons of the ACC programmes. The campus admits a large number of students, and in the 2020/21 academic year, the total number of students was 7300, out of which over 2400 were new Level 100 students. This has increased to 10,300 students in the 2022/23 academic year out of which 2529 are level 100 students. The necessary progressive increase in the student numbers has brought in its wake an increase in the pressure on academic facilities. 

 

 

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