page_title: Presbyterian University College
section_title: History and background
hierarchical_section_title: Presbyterian University College / History and background
caption_attribution_description: English: Presbyterian University College Entrance
context_page_description: The Presbyterian University College, Ghana is a partially private & public university located at Abetifi-Kwahu in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is one of the new universities in Ghana granted accreditation by the National Accreditation Board. It was established by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana on 23 November 2003 and inaugurated on 27 March 2004 by the president of Ghana in that republic, John Agyekum Kufuor.
  It has been ranked the best private university in Ghana and third best after the University of Ghana and KNUST by world university ranking website webometrics.
context_section_description: Per historical accounts, the Presbyterian Church of Ghana established Ghana's first elementary school in the country in 1843 which resulted in the institutionalization of formal education in the country. In 1848, the church founded a teacher-catechist seminary, the Basel Mission Seminary, later known as the Presbyterian Training College (PTC) at Akropong as the second higher educational institution in West Africa after Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone. This development led to the establishment of several primary and secondary schools and colleges of education through a strategic partnership with the Ghanaian government; specifically, 1,886 schools made up of 490 kindergartens, 973 primary school, 388 junior secondary schools, 25 senior secondary schools, five vocational institutes and five colleges of education. The church has also been instrumental in providing agricultural and health services for citizens.
  The initial plan was to upgrade the Presbyterian Training College at Akropong to a full-fledged university like Fourah Bay College but that did no come into fruition.  More than a century and a half later, the Synod of the Presbyterian Church during its 1996 conference voted to establish an actual university culminating in the setting up of an Implementation Committee in 1998.  The university sought to augment higher education services to meet to increasing demand for college education.  Despite its religious affiliation, the university college welcome students of all backgrounds, ethnicity, religion and geography.  The school runs a fee-paying, multi-campus, residential or hostel system in partnership with private enterprise.  Its academic programs are in humanities and social sciences, particularly theology, language and mission studies.  The school also offers programs in science and technology including health sciences, medicine, dentistry and nursing.
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