Ghanaian universities missing in THE's list of top law schools in Africa

Ghana plays host to some of the best universities in Africa yet their excellence in tertiary education could not even see them break into the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings table for law studies.

The University of Ghana which has always remained Ghana’s best bet was missing on the law league table.

According to the Times Higher Education, amongst other benchmarks, a university must publish 100 papers over the past five years to be considered for the law ranking.

The weightings for the law table are teaching, research, international outlook, citations and industry income.

A publication threshold and an academic staff threshold is equally a measured criteria.

There were just six universities that made it to the list of best schools to study law in Africa and these institutions are all based in South Africa.

University of Pretoria topped the Africa ranking with a score of 41.8 out of 100 but 90th position in the world.

The 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings table for law uses the same trusted and rigorous performance indicators as the overall World University Rankings, but the weightings have been recalibrated to suit the individual field.

This year’s global table includes 190 universities, up from 187 last year.

Once again, Stanford University tops the table, while the University of Cambridge rises one place to second. Yale University, the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago each climb one place to round out the top five. Harvard University drops out of the top 10, falling six places to 13th.

California’s top universities make significant progress this year, with the University of California, Berkeley joining the top 10 in joint sixth place and the University of California, Los Angeles rising seven places to 11th.

The National University of Singapore is Asia’s top representative at 15th place (up from 21st), while the University of Hong Kong is 17th (up from 22nd). Overall, six Asian institutions feature in the global top 50.

Below is a table of the African schools that made the list