The Coat of Arms of the University of Cape Coast consist of a shield, upon which is emblazoned in Red, an Adinkra symbol signifying God’s ominipotence. This symbol is superimposed in the lower half of the Shield on a background of Wavy Blue and White Lines signifying the Sea, and in the upper half, a Golden Eagle with outstretched Wings, signifying Strength, Determination and Excellence.
The Motto is:
“Veritas Nobis Lumen”
(Truth, Our Guide)
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The University of Cape Coast is one of the rare sea front universities in the world. It was established in October, 1962 as a University College and placed in a special relationship with the University of Ghana, Legon.university_library_complex On October 1, 1971, the College attained the status of a full and independent University, with the authority to confer its own degrees, diplomas and certificates by an Act of Parliament – The University of Cape Coast Act, 1971 [Act 390] and subsequently the University of Cape Coast Law, 1992 [PNDC Law 278].
The University was established out of a dire need for highly qualified and skilled manpower in education to provide leadership and enlightenment. Its original mandate was therefore to train graduate professional teachers for Ghana’s second cycle institutions and the Ministry of Education, in order to meet the manpower needs of the country’s accelerated education programme at the time. Today, with the expansion of some of its faculties and the diversification of programmes, the University has the capacity to meet the manpower needs of other ministries and industries in the country, besides that of the Ministry of Education.university-of-cape-coast The University started with two departments, namely: Arts and Science. These departments developed into faculties in 1963. In order to achieve the set objectives, in 1964, the University created two more Faculties, namely: Education and Economics & Social Studies [now Faculty of Social Sciences]. The fifth faculty [School of Agriculture] was established in 1975. The Faculty of Science was split into the Schools of Physical and Biological Sciences during the 2002/2003 academic year while the Department of Business Studies was also elevated to the School of Business with effect from the 2003/2004 academic year.
The National Accreditation Board (NAB), at its 63rd Meeting held on October 4, 2007 approved a three- year Interim Accreditation for the running of the Basic Sciences component of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB CHB) programme at the School of Medical Sciences of the University of Cape Coast. In view of this, the School of Medical Sciences became fully operational when on Thursday, January 17, 2008 the first batch of students was matriculated.faculty_of_education_lecture_theatre_builing In order to make graduate studies more relevant and responsive with research related to the economy, the Board of Graduate Studies was changed to the School of Graduate Studies and Research (SGSR) with renewed and enhanced mandate with modules that will focus on action and demand-driven research. 
The University has expanded the scope of its Sandwich Programmes to include: M.Ed. [Admin], M.Ed. [Management], M.A. [Human Resources Management], M.A. [Human Resources Development], and M.A. [Democratic Governance, Law and Development, Environmental Management Policy and M.A. [Governance and Sustainable Development], as well as M.A. and M.Ed. [Guidance and Counselling]. The following programmes: B.Com. B.M.S. and B.Sc [Marketing] have been designed for H.N.D. holders. The University also runs sandwich programmes at diploma, graduate and postgraduate levels in Organisation Development [O.D]. Similarly, in the 2005/2006 academic year, the University introduced other new programmes namely: B.Ed. (Management), B.Sc. (Psychology), B.Sc. (Medical Laboratory Technology) and B.Sc. (Nursing). Additionally, an M.Ed. (Information & Communication Technology) was also introduced in the same year under the Centre for Continuing Education. The new programmes are to cater for the academic and professional needs of individuals, institutions and organisations whose activities relate to these programmes. With the introduction of these new programmes, the University has phased out its B.Ed. (Foundations) and B.Ed. (Population and Family Life) programmes. The 2007/2008 academic year also saw the introduction of new programmes at the graduate level in the Institute of Development Studies, namely, MA (Development Studies), M. Phil. (Development Studies), MA (Development Management) and M. Phil. in Peace and Development Studies. The Department of Physics also introduced a sandwich programme in B.Sc. Engineering Physics for HND holders.arts
The University has also restructured its degree programmes by de-coupling the study of professional education courses from the main degree course. This was done to allow flexibility and choice in its course offerings and thus cater for specific needs of students, while still focusing on its traditional mission of producing highly qualified and skilled manpower in education. In this regard, approximately 50 percent of students are admitted into the Faculty of Education to pursue Bachelor of Education programmes, qualifying as professional teachers, and the rest admitted into non-education programmes in the other faculties. In response to the changing needs of society and those of the entire Ghanaian education enterprise, the University of Cape Coast has, over the last several years, progressively added to its traditional functions, the training of educational planners, administrators, agriculturalists, actuarial scientists, optometrists, information technologists, biochemists, environmentalists, laboratory technologists and experts in commerce, management, tourism, population and family life education, water and sanitation, molecular biology, biotechnology, computer science and livestock system managers. From an initial student enrolment of 155 in 1963, the University of Cape Coast now has a total student population of over 35,922. The break down is as follows: 14,815 Regular Undergraduate Students, 2,146 Sandwich Students and 18,018 Distant Learning Students. See details of enrollment figure from 1963 to date. 
The University of Cape Coast admitted a total of 4,499 students into its various programmes for the 2011/2012 Academic Year. These were selected from a total of 9421 candidates who applied for admission to the University. In the 2008/2009 academic year, 1320 sandwich students were admitted to undertake Diploma, undergraduate and post-graduate studies. The number was made up of 941 post-graduate applicants and 379 undergraduate applicants. By gender distribution, 634 of the post-graduate applicants were males and 307 females. For the undergraduate applicants, 233 were males and 146 females. The University of Cape Coast has, over the years, been admitting students from less endowed schools and other areas through the remedial science programme, mature students’ entrance examinations and concessionary selections from deprived schools identified by the Joint Admissions Board. For the 2008/2009 Academic Year, the University went further to admit about 80 students from a number of deprived schools in Ghana. For example, students were admitted from the Three Town Secondary School, Volta Region; Bonzo-Kaku Secondary School, Western Region; Obrakyire Secondary School, Central Region; Dagbong State Secondary Technical, Northern Region and Lassia Tuolo Secondary School, Upper West Region, among others to study various degree programmes. Besides these, a scholarship scheme has been established to cater for needy but brilliant students from communities around the University. The seed money was provided by the Trust Bank.pic2 
As part of its desire to vigorously promote distance education, the College of Distance Education (CoDE) formally Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) has acquired sites in seven out of ten regions for the construction of permanent study centres. The centres will eventually serve as UCC campuses in the regions to run some campus-based programmes. Additionally, there is a sixty-billion Cedis IGF funded building complex completed for the College of Distance Education (CoDE)
加纳海岸角大学简介
加纳海岸角大学（university of cape coast）
始建于1962年，坐落于加纳东南部著名旅游城市海岸角，海岸角市建立于1652年， 海岸角奴隶堡是占有“黄金海岸”的据点，一度是世界上最大的奴隶交易枢纽，有城堡、要塞和教堂等古迹，频临几内亚湾，海岸角目前是加纳中部区首府。
海岸角大学现设有五个大学院（Colleges）和11个院系（Schools or Faculties），住校学生有28000左右，加上远程教育、培训和分校学生有四万多人，学校设有附属中、小学，高等教育学历层次涵盖学士、硕士和博士。加纳海岸角大学是一所在加纳处于领先地位的政府公办的教育与研究型大学，在全国综合排名第二或第三，文科和教师培训排名全国第一，是加纳最大的师资培训中心，负责全国教师资格证书的培训与考试。ch12
学校在高等教育多学科领域均处于西非领先地位，尤其是以严格的高质量的本科和研究生教育著称，专业和研究领域涵盖艺术、社会科学、远程教育、商学、农业、法律、理工各学科、医学等。过去数十年来，学校倡导培养批判性思维，扩大了研究领域，提升了办学层次，尤其在文科方面。海岸角大学承担了加纳规模最大、质量最好的远程教育各项目，承担着为全国中小学各类教育、研究机构培养师资的重任。另外，海岸角大学精心打造了与非洲及世界多国和多地区的高端研究机构和企业的合作模式。
海岸角大学是加纳规模最大、办学历史最为悠久的高等学府。尽管专业领域实现了多样化，但是，其教育学院仍然是学校最大的学院，除参加培训项目的学员外，其余超过半数以上的学生都在攻读教育类学位。学校拥有能积极推动语言学习的、调动学生学习积极性的方法论、教学法，具有课程发展和师资培训等许多优秀的课程基础。
海岸角大学已与湖南城市学院共建孔子学院，今年六月二日，正式举行了孔子学院揭牌仪式，孔子学院将在加纳为本kveml_news30398ucc科生引进现代标准汉语，建立本科汉语项目并逐步完善“外语示范点”，使其课程能在全国范围内的公立和私立大学得以推广。孔子学院将作为资源中心提供教师培训、课程设计、开发教学视听材料以及参与公共文化活动等服务。孔子学院开设的中国语言和文化课程将着眼于加纳的工商领域、教师、家长及感兴趣的个人等。海岸角大学的中心图书馆和各院系的图书馆和阅览室将联合作为中国文化的公共信息中心对外开放
。此外，孔子学院将在各层面和各学科领域促进湖南城市学院和海岸角大学之间的学术交流。