The Methodist University Ghana (MUCG) is a

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. It is located at

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in the

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. It was established in October 2000 by the

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after being granted accreditation by the National Accreditation Board in August 2000. Academic work started in November 2000 at the Wesley Grammar School campus. MUCG offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across various disciplines.

History

At its 37th Annual Conference in

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in 1998, the Methodist Church resolved to establish a Methodist University College. Following thorough preparations and procedures, the Methodist University College Ghana (MUCG) received accreditation from the National Accreditation Board (NAB) in August 2000. Approval for its affiliation with the University of Ghana was granted in October 2002. Academic activities commenced at MUCG in October 2000. The initial group of students began attending lectures in November 2000, followed by the second group in October 2001. The university was established with the aim of providing quality tertiary education grounded in Christian principles and values. Since its inception, MUCG has played a significant role in expanding access to higher education and fostering academic excellence in Ghana.

Organization

The university has five faculties. Each is made up of departments which report to their respective deans.

Faculty of Business Administration

* Accounting Department * Banking and Finance Department *

Human Resource Management Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage. It is designed to maximize e ...

and Management Studies Department * Marketing and Supply chain Department

Faculty of Arts and General Studies

* Languages Department * General Studies Department *

Religious Studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

Department * Music and Theatre Studies Department

Faculty of Social Studies

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

Department *

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

Department * Social Work Department

Faculty of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

Department *

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

Statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

Departments *

Actuarial Science Actuarial science is the discipline that applies mathematics, mathematical and statistics, statistical methods to Risk assessment, assess risk in insurance, pension, finance, investment and other industries and professions. Actuary, Actuaries a ...

Faculty of Applied Sciences

* General Agriculture and Agribusiness Department. * Agroprocessing Department * Nursing Department.

Campuses

There are three campuses. * Dansoman Campus: This is the main campus of the university, in an Accra suburb. * Tema Campus: Satellite campus on the premises of the Tema Methodist Day Secondary School. * Wenchi Campus: B.Sc. General Agriculture, Diploma in General Nursing, Certificate programmes in Agrobusiness, Agro-processing and Horticulture are run from this campus.

Affiliation

The university was officially affiliated to the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...

since October 2002. However, on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, the university was granted a presidential charter to award its own degrees.

Notes

External links

National Accreditation Board

Methodist University College Ghana

Methodist Church Ghana
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