The University for Development Studies has moved up to 4^th place in Ghana and 80^th in Africa
in the latest ranking released by the Ranking Web of Universities.

Web rankings for universities are graded by Visibility (50%) and Activity (50%). Visibility
(50%) has to do with the quality of the website’s contents, counting all the external in links that
the University web domain receives from third parties. Those links recognize the institutional
prestige, the academic performance, the value of the information, and the usefulness of the
services as introduced in the webpages according to the criteria of millions of web editors from
all over the world.

Activity is broken down to three criteria; Presence, Openness and Excellence. Presence (16.67%)
has to do with the number of relevant pages on the site, Openness (16.67%) is the impact of our
institutional repository and finally Excellence (16.67%) is about the quality of publications from
the University Community.

The efforts of the ICT Directorate in upgrading the University’s web presence (website,
Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Youtube), the improved level of content from University
Relations and student’s academic/work performance has aided an increase in Visibility (which is
the biggest contributor to the current rank) and has also increased Presence.

Efforts of the Library in the setup of the University’s Institutional Repository (UDSSpace) have
resulted in an increase in Openness and the quality of publications from the University’s
Lecturers and Researchers has increased the ranking of Excellence.

Within Africa, The University of Ghana is currently ranked 17^th, Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology is ranked 32^nd , UCC is ranked 56^th and the University for Development
Studies is ranked 80^th, out of the 2,090 Tertiary Institutions listed in Africa.

Also, out of 31,598 Tertiary Institutions listed globally, the University for development studies is
ranked 2,598^th.