75 years of Ghanaian universities, and the TVET numbers nobody agrees on
A dated answer to how many universities there are in Ghana, the enrolment story since 1948, and three reported TVET figures that cannot all be right.
Education data and facts
How the education system runs, the numbers behind it and where every figure comes from. Each page names its source and year.
Articles
Connected but not learning? Internet, mobile and education in Ghana
Seven in ten Ghanaians use the internet, nearly all of it on a phone, and the public data cannot yet say what that means for learning.
Ghana's talent pipeline: who we train, who leaves
Ghana-trained nurses are joining the UK register in their thousands, doctors are scarce, and the counts for lawyers and engineers disagree. Here is what each number measures and what it cannot tell us.
Girls caught up. Then came the STEM wall
Girls in STEM in Ghana is no longer mainly a story about getting into school. The data points to what girls study and where they live.
Paying for school: Ghana's education budget squeeze
Education took a smaller slice of Ghana's economy and government budget after 2014 while more children enrolled. Our own calculation puts real spending per pupil about a quarter lower in 2022, and the Free SHS head counts are described in more than one way.
Guides and data
How the education system works
Kindergarten to university: the stages, ages, BECE, placement, WASSCE, tertiary and TVET, and who runs what.
Education data hub
Headline indicators and every data story, indexed by topic, with a source and a year on every figure.
How many schools are there in Ghana?
Ghana has 43,626 schools on the register: 30,956 public and 12,634 private, 1,175 senior high. By level and by region, from the Ministry of Education census.
School enrolment in Ghana: who is in school and who is not
School enrolment in Ghana: primary net enrolment fell to 78.9% in 2020/21. The World Bank counts 235,313 children out of primary school in 2024. See the ratios.
Teachers in Ghana: more of them trained, pupils per teacher barely changed
Teachers in Ghana: 87.6% of public primary teachers were trained in 2018/19, up from 58%, with 29.2 pupils per teacher. The latest official ratio is dated.
Literacy rate in Ghana, and how it differs by region
Literacy rate in Ghana from Census 2021: 69.8% nationally. Greater Accra is highest at 87.9% and Savannah lowest at 32.8%. See all sixteen regions ranked.
Education in northern Ghana: how far behind, and what the data can and cannot say
Education in northern Ghana: in 2016 Primary 6 English proficiency was 22.1% in Upper East and 14.1% in Upper West, against 78.6% in Greater Accra. Old map.
Pupils in rural, public and deprived-district schools score far lower: what the data shows
The learning gap in Ghana: in 2013, 74.2% of private school and 29.7% of public school Primary 6 pupils were proficient in English; urban 59.2%, rural 27.1%.
Girls and boys in Ghanaian schools: where parity has been reached
Girls and boys in school in Ghana: parity reached in primary (1.00) and JHS (1.02), SHS at 0.95, and girls the majority of WASSCE entrants since 2020.
Districts of Ghana
All districts by region, with the kind of assembly and how many schools each holds.
Regions and districts ranked
Every region and district ranked on published education data, with the year and source of each table. No school is ranked.
Districts ranked
Every district ranked on the District League Table education index, with BECE pass rates and the median by region.
Methodology and sources
Every source behind the register, with publisher, year and link, and how records are cleaned, matched and mapped.
Correct a record
Spotted something wrong and you are not from the school? Tell us anyway.
Schools for families abroad
Boarding schools, international and British or American curriculum schools, and how admission works from overseas.