The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the seven Ghanaian public universities.It is the most prestigious university in Ghana. It was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast, and was originally an affiliate college of the University of London, which supervised its academic programmes and awarded degrees. It gained full university status in 1961, and now has nearly 34,000 students.
The original emphasis was on the liberal arts, social sciences, basic science, agriculture, and medicine, but (partly as the result of a national educational reform programme) the curriculum was expanded to provide more technology-based and vocational courses and postgraduate training.
The University is mainly based at Legon, about twelve kilometres north-east of the centre of Accra.It has its medical school at Korle-bu teaching hospital and also another campus in the city of Accra know as the accra city campus.
