Ghana operates on a 6-3-4-4 System

1.      Grade School - 6 years

2.      Junior Secondary/High School - 3 years

3.      Senior Secondary School - 3 years

4.      (Senior High School participants 2007-2009 – 4 years)

5.      College Bachelor's Degree - 4 years

Language: The sole authority dialect of direction all through the Ghanaian instructive framework is English. Understudies may contemplate in any of eleven neighborhood dialects for a significant part of the initial three years, after which English turns into the medium. Understudies keep on considering a Ghanaian dialect and additionally French as classroom subjects through at any rate the ninth grade. All course books and materials are generally in English.

Senior Secondary School/Senior High School: 375,000 Ghanaian understudies take the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) toward the end of JHS Form 3 (ninth grade) in seven subjects. Admission to Senior Secondary/High School is focused: just 150,000 understudies can be conceded into the 500 open and 200 private national auxiliary schools. The larger part of Ghanaian understudies go to open life experience schools, a significant number of which are very focused; there are just about six universal private optional schools in the nation, all things considered graduating around 300 understudies a year and offering the IB or A-level curricula.

The Senior High School was presented in 2007, growing the framework to four years yet not generally changing the educational program, an arrangement that was turned around following three years, as a consequence of which there were no graduates in 2010, and two companions graduating in 2013. In the general population national schools, all understudies take a Core educational program comprising of English Language, Integrated Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies. Every understudy likewise takes three or four Elective subjects, looked over one of seven gatherings: Sciences, "Expressions" (sociologies and humanities), Vocational (visual expressions or home financial aspects), Technical, Business, or Agriculture. The auxiliary school transcript ought to contain a letter or rate grade for every subject, for each of three terms, for the three (four) years of senior optional school, identical to the tenth through twelfth (thirteenth) grades. Understudies' Term Reports (report cards) contain rank in class for every subject and in addition grades for classwork and end of term exams. The evaluating framework is intense: 80-100% is normally An, an evaluation seldom granted.

 These exams are given across the nation in April-June every year, except the outcomes are not accessible until the next August. Evaluating is astoundingly extreme: 4% of evaluations are A's, keeping in mind 80% of evaluations are passes, just 53% of evaluations are credit goes of A1-C6. C's can be truly aggressive evaluations. The base college standard for admission to post-optional instruction is a 'C-" normal on the SSSCE or WASSCE, with credits (A-D or A1-C6) in all subjects. U.S. colleges ought not concede Ghanaian understudies who have not accomplished in any event this level. Understudies are required to retake exams in subjects they have fizzled. Schools ought to oblige a photocopy of the WASSCE Statement of Results bearing a unique mark and stamp from the dean or headmistress, and additionally the transcript. You are emphatically urged to check these archives at source, through the West African Examinations Council's online framework at www.ghana.waecdirect.org. The understudy gives you a PIN number that they buy for what might as well be called $3 (accessible at post workplaces or WAEC provincial workplaces), that is utilized to recover a printable duplicate of their WAEC results. This is the speediest and most solid method for checking an understudy's outcomes from Ghana. All outcomes from all WAEC exams going back to 1993 can be checked through WAECDirect.

University Education: Ghana's tertiary foundations select more than 300,000 understudies in undergrad, graduate, testament and confirmation programs in a full scope of scholarly and expert fields. The National Accreditation Board (www.nab.gov.gh) records 140 certify organizations, both open and private, offering four-year degrees and additionally two and three-year certificates, which are not equal to Bachelor's degrees, but rather undergrad exchange credit can be granted. Twenty-six percent of tertiary understudies are enlisted in private organizations.

Ghanaian college affirmation is exceptionally focused, particularly in fields, for example, medication, building, law, business and drug store. The nature of instruction is considered sensibly high, confirm that HR are more critical than material assets. With an end goal to pull in worldwide enlistment, all Ghanaian colleges work on a measured, semester framework. The University of Ghana is focused on 10% global populace and draws in huge quantities of American understudies, and additionally understudies from Africa and Europe. The United Nations University works a few projects on grounds in fields of wellbeing and improvement.

Ghanaians in the United States: 2,863 Ghanaians are selected in more than 600 U.S. establishments in each of the 50 states. Their impact is huge: every year, recently selecting Ghanaian understudies are recompensed over $5 million in budgetary help for study in the United States. Ghanaian open optional school and college graduates consistently achieve admission to the most focused colleges in the United States.

Testing: The SAT and ACT are offered on every test date, in both Accra and Kumasi. The GRE, GMAT and TOEFL are offered at any rate week by week at PC based test focuses in Accra; IELTS and PTE-An are likewise accessible. In spite of the fact that we need understudies to exhibit their dedication and aggressiveness, we advocate the utilization of testing just as justified, and demoralize organizations from obliging the TOEFL of understudies who can satisfactorily show their English capability by different means.

Instructive Advising: The EducationUSA Advising Centers in Accra and Kumasi, supported by the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy, serve more than 20,000 understudies for each year in an extensive variety of projects intended to fortify understudies' applications and their preparation for U