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University of gold coast. The University of gold coast is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian universities and tertiary institutions. It was founded in 1948 as the University College of the metal(prenominal) Coast . and was in the first place an affiliate college of the University of London. which manage its academic programmes and awarded degrees. It gained h onenessst university status in 1961, and now has nearly 40,000 students. \nThe original strain was on the progressive tense arts, social sciences, introductory science, agriculture, and medicine, but (partly as the result of a national educational reform programme) the political program was expanded to bid more engine room - ground and vocational courses and graduate student training. \nThe university is mainly based at Legon. nigh twelve kilometres northeast of the centre of Accra. The medical examination civilize is in Korle Bu. with a didactics hospital and collateral campus in the metropolis o f Accra. It also has a graduate school of thermo atomic and consort sciences at the Ghana Atomic zero Commission. making it one of the few universities on the Africa continent offering programmes in nuclear physics and nuclear engineering .