PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA

PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA

INTRODUCTION

Even though, Ghana’s private sector has played a signifant part in the country’s formal education for a long time. It received a boost  in the late 1990s. In this respect, the churches are again playing a leading role in their establishment. These institutions are still very small, compared to most of the public tertiary institution and they are all coeducational.

A key feature of most them, however, is that they charge relatively high fees for their service compared to the public institutions. In spite of this, they are enjoying increasingly great patronage and they are rapidly expanding. Most of them however, are yet to develop adequate campus residential facilities comparable to what the public universities have. Nevertheless, some of them have good hostel facilities for students. Currently, the accredited private tertiary institution in Ghana are: