University for Development Studies – UDS Tamale

ABOUT UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES UDS

 

TheUniversity for Development StudiesUDS was established in May 1992 by PNDC Law 279 to blend the academic world with that of the community in order to provide constructive and meaningful interaction between the two for the total Development of NorthernGhana, in particular, andGhanaas whole. It began academic work in September 1993 with the first batch of thirty-nine (39) students admitted into the Faculty of Agriculture, (FOA), Nyankpala.

The University’s principal objective is to address and find solutions to the environmental problems and socio-economic deprivations that have characterized northern Ghana in particular and are also found in some rural areas throughout the rest of the country.

Accordingly, UDS consciously and systematically runprogrammesthat are targeted to prepare the individuals to establish their own careers in specialized areas. Further it equips these practitioners with requisite knowledge to enable them to live and function in any deprived community in the country.

Although the University is still in need of physical infrastructure and teaching aids, it has steadily grown over the years, and now operates four (4) satellite campuses spread out in the three (3) Northern Regions of Ghana. That is Wa Campus (Upper West Region), Navrongo campus (Upper East Region) and, Tamale and Nyankpala Campuses (Northern Region).

The Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, (FIDS), Faculty of Planning and Land Management (FPLM) and Faculty ofEducation(FOA), School ofBusiness, Wa, School ofMedicineandHealthSciences (SMHS), Tamale, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR), Nyankpala, Faculty of Applied Sciences (FAS), Faculty of Mathematical Sciences (FMS), Navrongo and the Graduate School now in Tamale were phased in from 1994 to date.

Presently there are Masters programmes in the Social Sciences and Sciences run by the University. Equally the University offers doctorate degree programmes.

As stated in the vision of the university, “to be a home of world-class pro-poorscholarship“; the University strives to ensure that there are intellectual and pragmatic inputs into the developmental processes of the poor, disadvantaged and the marginalized areas and peoples of the country and beyond.

Accordingly, the combination of its location and its vision makes the University for Development Studies ideally placed to be partnered with any organization (s) in addressing environmental challenges. The University also equips its products with requisite knowledge to enable them to live and function in any deprived community.

 

The University now has four (4) campuses, seven (7) Faculties, aBusinessSchool, a Medical School, a Graduate School and three (3) centres. The current student population stands at about twenty thousand.

 

Distinguishing features of UDS

 

UDS is unique compared to other public  Universities in the following ways:

1. Its location, Northern Ghana, which is the poorest part of Ghana.
2. Its Multi campus nature, that is, the campuses are spread out in rural Northern Ghana where the incidence and depth of poverty is high.
3. Its vision is pro-poor aimed at addressing the conditions and structural causes of poverty.
4. The third Trimester Field PracticalProgrammeran by the University as integral part of the curriculum ensures that both students and staff work closely with disadvantaged marginalized and hard to reach people in the communities with a focus on poverty reduction.
5. It has an innovative admission policy geared towards solving gender unbalance and general inequity of access to tertiaryeducation
6. The curriculum and pedagogical style are structured in a manner that provide students with the requisite academic and practical knowledge, tools and skills to effectively deal with development and poverty-related issues at the grassroots level.

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University of Ghana, legon
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi
University of Cape Coast , Cape Coast
University of Education , Winneba
University for Development Studies, Tamale
University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa
university of health and allied science, Ho
university of energy and natural resouce, sunyani
university of professional studies, Accra
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)
Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL)

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