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The Tufts-in-Ghana program, which takes place in the fall semester, links Tufts to the University of Ghana (Legon), located just outside the booming metropolis of the capital, Accra.

The University of Ghana, founded in 1948, is a full-service research and teaching university comprising two main colleges (College of Health Sciences and College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences), six faculties (Arts, Law, Science, Social Studies, Engineering Science, and Business School), and numerous institutes, schools, and centers, some which offer courses only at the graduate level (for example, the School of Communication Studies, the School of Public Health, etc.). The University’s 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students are served by six residence halls, two international student hostels, three graduate student hostels, central and branch libraries, a university hospital, several banks, a post office, and several communication centers for email, telephone, and fax. The area of Legon is part of Greater Accra, a cosmopolitan urban center.

Ghana is among the most economically prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa. Its climate is tropical. Notwithstanding the challenges faced by all developing countries, Ghana has a rapidly modernizing infrastructure for sanitation, health care, telecommunications, transportation, food, and accommodation. There is a market economy, a free press, an independent judiciary, and an elected constitutional democracy. English is the language of instruction at the University of Ghana and is widely spoken throughout the nation.

Official Tufts in Ghana website: http://uss.tufts.edu/studyabroad/programsTufts/ghana/ghana_index.asp