Nurses and Midwives play a very important role in Ghana’s Health Care delivery system. Nurses must therefore be given quality training for effective performance in this role. Ghana is renowned for its commitment to providing quality healthcare services to its citizens. In order to achieve this, the nation has established numerous nursing training colleges that offer excellent educational programs for aspiring nurses.
This article aims to highlight the ten nursing training colleges in Ghana that have consistently demonstrated their dedication to producing highly skilled and competent nurses. These institutions not only provide a solid theoretical foundation but also emphasize practical training, equipping their students with the necessary knowledge and skills to excel in their nursing careers.
The nursing profession plays a vital role in healthcare delivery, and the demand for well-trained and compassionate nurses continues to grow. As such, it is essential for prospective nursing students to choose an institution that offers a comprehensive curriculum, experienced faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and a supportive learning environment.
Through extensive research and careful evaluation, we have compiled a list of the top ten nursing training colleges in Ghana. This list takes into consideration various factors such as academic reputation, accreditation, student success rates, clinical exposure, and overall student satisfaction.
Whether you are a Ghanaian student aspiring to become a nurse or an international student seeking quality nursing education, this guide will provide you with valuable insights into the best nursing training colleges in Ghana. Each institution showcased here has earned its place based on its commitment to excellence in nursing education and its contribution to producing competent healthcare professionals.
So, let us delve into the top ten nursing training colleges in Ghana and discover the unique features and strengths that set them apart. Whether you are looking for a government-funded institution or a private college, this guide will assist you in making an informed decision about your nursing education and future career.
- KORLE-BU NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
The Nurse’s Training College, Korle-bu was established in 1945 and is a premier institution in Ghana for nursing education. The first batch of trained Midwives took their final examination in 1930.
The two institutions, that is, Nurses’ Training College and Midwifery Training School, Korle-Bu operated as separate training institutions until they were merged in 2008.
There are 2 main Programmes at NMTC Korle-Bu: Registered General Nursing (RGN) programme and Registered Midwifery (RM) programme. The Departments under the RGN programme include Medical-Surgical Nursing, Public Health Nursing, Obstetrics Nursing, Paediatrics Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing and Allied Nursing. The RM programme’s departments include Obstetric Nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Neonatal Paediatric Nursing, Family Planning, Prenatal Nursing, Labour, Puerperium and Allied Midwifery.
The college’s curriculum has continued to evolve in response to the changing health needs of society including Registered General Nursing. The programme is for six semesters, leading to the Diploma in Registered General Nursing award. The programme demands a continuous assessment of students throughout the semesters. Students are assessed on their performance in class tests, mid-semester and end-of-semester examinations in both theory and clinical practice.
The registered Midwifery programme is a Diploma programme open to only female students. The RM programme is arranged semester by semester. It is also a six (6) semester course structure.
The entry requirements into Korle-bu Nursing and midwifery training college is a cutoff point of an aggregate of 36 for WASSCE students and an aggregate of 24 for SSCE students with at least a credit pass in 6 subjects (3 core and 3 electives). Students must also be between the ages of 18 and 35, pass a selection interview, be of good health and have no criminal record.
NMTC Korle-Bu is home to many students with two types of hostel accommodation. Since the College is a residential one, all students are expected to live on the campus but a few students occasionally opt to be day students. A shuttle bus service and taxis are readily available from and to the main gate of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, making the commute easy.
CONTACT
P. O. Box KB 81/ KB 83, Korle-Bu
admin@korlebunmtc.edu.gh
0302 677166 or 0302 665401
2. KUMASI NURSING & MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
The Kumasi Nursing and Midwifery Training College is a public tertiary health institution in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana founded in 1957.
The college provides high-standard theoretical and clinical coursework in all aspects of diploma-standard general nursing and midwifery. The college now awards a direct Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery after students from the institution have completed a three-year training programme. The school is accredited by the National Accreditation Board.
The school offers three programmes: a Basic programme, a Post-basic programme, and a Certificate programme. The basic programme includes programmes such as Registered General Nurse (RGN) Diploma, Registered Midwifery (RM) Diploma which is for females only, Registered Mental Nurse (RMN) Diploma, Registered Community Health Nurse (RCHN) Diploma and more.
Post-basic programmes include Community (Medical Assistants), Ophthalmic Nursing, Peri-Operative Nursing, ENT Nursing, Public Health Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Nurse Anaesthesiology and Community Oral Health.
Certificate programmes include Certificate in Community Health Nursing, Certificate in Environmental Health (Environmental Health Assistants), Certificate in Community Health (Field Technicians), Certificate in Clinical Health Care (Health Assistants).
CONTACT
+233 241 385 150
info@nmtckumasi.edu.gh
P. O. Box KS 110
Adum – Kumasi, Ghana
3. 37 MILITARY NURSING & MIDWIFERY TRAINING SCHOOL
The 37 Military Hospital Nursing and Midwifery Training College (37NMTC), a training wing of the 37 Military Hospital, was established as a department in July 1941, the same year the main hospital was built.
Currently, the programmes offered are Registered General Nursing (RGN) and Registered Midwifery (RM). The school aims to produce an efficient, effective and disciplined polyvalent nurses. The vision of the college is to be the best Military Health Training Institution in West Africa, relying on an efficient and effective workforce, using appropriate technology to provide competent health professionals.
The school is also on a mission to promote high-quality nursing and midwifery training of soldiers and civilians, to make them competent, operational-ready and skilful healthcare service providers through technology-based learning and teaching serving on land, sea and air.
The college has excellent facilities including a library well equipped with modern books needed for teaching and learning, a sitting capacity of 40 students and equipped with computers which are connected to the internet for research purposes. It also has an ICT Laboratory with forty-five computers which are connected to the internet for students’ academic work and two well-resourced skills acquisition laboratories for RGN and RM programmes. Students are taught practical lessons at these skills laboratories and also have the opportunity to practice the skills taught.
The college has a renewable accreditation with the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to provide three-year diploma courses in Registered General Nursing and Midwifery. The college has an affiliation with the University of Science and Technology. The college is also a member of the Health Training Institutions Secretariat.
CONTACT
Nursing & Midwifery Training College
37 Military Hospital, Neghelli Barracks
Phone: +233 302 769 369
Email: info@37nmtc.com
4. HO NURSES TRAINING COLLEGE
The Ho Nurses’ Training College is a public tertiary health institution in Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana.
The University of Ghana awards a Diploma in Nursing after students from the institution have completed a three-year nursing training programme. The institution is accredited by the National Accreditation Board.
The school aims at inspiring students to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more in their respective journeys of life. The school has one of the best facilities and resources including a library which began operating in 1974 and has since then been supporting teaching, learning and research activities. There are currently over 4000 volumes of mono-graphic literature covering all academic programmes offered at the college and a collection of e-resources at the library.
The college offers three academic programmes: Registered General Nursing, Public Health Nursing and Post Basic BSC Nursing. The BSc. nursing programme aims at preparing graduates to be responsibly informed nurses through the acquisition and application of knowledge, skills and the right professional attitudes. After completion of this programme, graduates will be able to assume responsibilities as professional and competent nurses who provide promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services.
The purpose of the Public Health Nursing programme is to train health personnel to supervise community and district health facilities where medical officers are usually not available. It also aims to produce a health worker who will be able to lead a health team to deliver effective, preventive and curative health care at the sub-district level, and also be part of the team of health workers at the district and community.
BSc Nursing (Post Basic) or PBSc Nursing is a 2 years course for candidates who belong to Nursing or have a similar background.
To gain admission to read this course, WASSCE holders must have passes (A1-C6) respectively in six (6) subjects comprising three (3) core subjects plus three (3) relevant elective subjects.
CONTACT
+233 (0) 36 202 6718
+233 (0) 36 202 6718
+233 (0) 36 202 6718
Email: info@ntcho.edu.gh / ekmawuena.afl@knust.edu.gh
Address: P.O.BOX 728,
NTC – HO
VOLTA – GHANA
5. CAPE COAST NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
Cape coast nursing and midwifery training college exists to train, through the use of modern teaching methodologies, Registered General Nurses and Midwives (Diploma) to provide good quality nursing, midwifery and neonatal care to individuals, families and the community, as a whole, within the health delivery system in the country in a humane, efficient and effective manner.
The vision of the institution is to train professional nurses and midwives who will humanely practice good-quality nursing and midwifery. The college has very good facilities and is also equipped with a library stocked with various books needed for the training of a competent nurse/midwife.
Students are required to carry a minimum workload of 12 credits per semester and a maximum of 18. Each student is also allowed to have academic advisors for consultation on courses.
The goal of the college’s academic programmes is to produce a polyvalent nurse/midwife who will practise general nursing/midwifery in any sector of the community. The professional nurse/midwife would have acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes to recognize the total health needs of individuals, families and communities and participate effectively and efficiently in meeting those needs.
CONTACT
Cape Coast and Midwifery Training College
P.O. Box 792, Cape Coast
(233) 245 184 578 / 031 229 1875
info@ccnmtc.edu.gh
6. KOFORIDUA NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
The college has excellent infrastructure, competent teaching faculty with years of experience and follows innovative methods of teaching to convey the importance of the course that the students have embarked upon. The schools also ensure that students have an all-round development as intelligent, alert member of society, is nourished. They also provide an arena of extracurricular activities which brings out the best in the student.
At Koforidua Nursing and Midwifery Training College, students not only receive theoretical education, but they also experience the richness of practical education through laboratory work and clinical. There is also a friendly academic environment where both teaching and non-teaching staff are dedicated to preparing students for work in the future.
The college offers a nursing programme as a way to prepare the individual to give general nursing care in the hospital and the community. It is a six-semester (three-year) programme. The midwifery programme also prepares individuals in basic nursing with special options in midwifery. It is also a six-semester (three-year) programme which admits individuals from Senior High Schools (SHSs). The school has adopted a policy to let students use the first year to acquaint themselves with some nursing procedures and materials in the school’s well-equipped demonstration room and start their clinical practicals in the 2nd year at several Hospitals.
The school is on a mission to train nurses and midwives to be knowledgeable, skilful and disciplined to deliver quality health services to the Ghanaian populace and any other area where their services will be needed. Its vision is to turn out nurses and midwives who have been trained to suit the nursing and midwifery profession.
CONTACT
+228 872 7355
7. SEKONDI NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
Sekondi Nursing and Midwifery Training College is a public tertiary health institution in Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana.
The General Nursing program was started in 1954 and in 1999, the Registered General Nursing (RGN) was initiated. The Registered Midwifery (RM) was the latest programme to be introduced in 2001. The College pioneered the RM programme.
The University of Ghana awards a Diploma in Nursing after students from the institution have completed a three-year nursing training programme. The institution is accredited by the National Accreditation Board.
The Academic programmes of NMTC are in two domains. These are the Registered General Nursing (RGN) and Registered Midwifery (RM). Each run for three (3) years or Six (6) semesters and the Registered Midwifery programme is specifically for females.
The school is supported by a highly skilled and dedicated team of tutors and support staff. The school is a two-form entry, Registered General Nurses and Registered Midwifery. The school is dedicated to providing the best possible education for every student in a stimulating and safe environment.
Following the recommendations of the National Curriculum, they follow a literacy-rich curriculum that aims to link Humanities and Sciences. To make learning exciting and engaging, lots of skills and visual-based learning are included within lessons.
The school’s vision is to produce nurses who will contribute to the improvement of the overall health status and reduce inequalities in health outcomes of people living in Ghana. The school is also on a mission to provide optimum health care and to work in collaboration with all other healthcare providers to ensure that every individual household and community is adequately informed about health and has equitable access to high-quality health and related intervention.
CONTACT
Tel: +233 317081120
Email: nmtcsek1954@gmail.com
Box 333, Sekondi W/R. Ghana
8. SUNYANI NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
Sunyani Nursing and midwifery training college was established in 1972 by the Ministry of Health and became operational on 1st October 2004 after it received accreditation from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana as a Nurses Training College offering diploma programmes in General Nursing. The school is situated in Sunyani, the capital of the Brong-Ahafo Region.
The college runs three academic programmes: Registered General Nursing (RGN), Registered Midwifery (RM) and Post Nurse Assistant Clinical (Post NAC). They operate distinctively with a course structure. The Registered General Nursing (RGN) and the Registered Midwifery (RM) are for Six semesters whiles the Post Nurse Assistant Clinical (Post NAC) is for 4 semesters
The institution aims to attain and maintain academic excellence in the training of polyvalent nurses and midwives in the country. The College’s mission is to train polyvalent nurses who will cure, promote, restore health and alleviate suffering in individuals, families and communities within the health delivery system in a humane, efficient and effective manner through academic discipline, staff motivation and the use of modern teaching equipment.
Tuition fees at Sunyani Nursing and Midwifery Training College are about GHC1,500 per year. Students would be required to pay additional fees such as SRC dues of about GHC200, hall dues of about GHC100 and Exams fee of about GHC360.
CONTACT
0205831822 / 0352023914
PMB 4, SUNYANI
nmtc.syi@gmail.com
9. COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, KINTAMPO, BONO EAST
The College of Health and Well-Being, Kintampo (Formerly Rural Health Training School) became fully established in 1969 by the Ministry of Health Ghana.
It has the mandate to churn out quality multi-purpose health personnel for the provision of quality health care throughout the country. The guiding principle of the school is to produce human resource capable of providing health services that is simple in operation, extensive in scope, affordable and yet efficient in quality.
The College now runs 15 programmes made up of Direct and Post Basic Diploma Courses, BSc. Courses. These programmes range from Certificate (Auxiliary) to the Bachelors level and cover both preventive and curative health care. Some of the programmes are direct entry programmes (for WASSCE & SSSCE graduates) whilst others are Post basic Entry Programmes (for serving officers)
The school has 8 departments: Physician Assistantship Medical, Health Information, Medical Diagnostic & Radiology, Disease Control & Epidemiology, Dental, Family Health, Community Mental Health and Sandwich Programmes department.
The mission of the college is to educate and train well-motivated, knowledgeable and skilful health professionals who are capable of providing quality services to all people in all settings, especially in remote and under-served communities. It hopes to be in a few years, a ‘world-class’ Health University that responds to the health needs of communities.
Tuition fees at the College of Health and Well-Being are about GHC 3,852.00 a year for diploma programmes and BSc. Programmes it’s about GHC 4,682.00 a year. An additional fee such as a feeding fee is charged which is about GHC 2,400 a year.
CONTACT
Post Office Box 9
Kintampo Bono East
Ghana West Africa
0352092035
0352092040
info@cohk.edu.gh
cohkintampo@gmail.com
10. TAMALE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING SCHOOL
The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Training College, Tamale was built and commissioned in 1974.
The college upgraded from training enrolled nurses to training Qualified Registered Nurses (QRNs), then to State Registered Nurses (SRN) and in the year 1999, commenced the training of Registered General Nurses (RGN – Diploma). In 2009, the college was among the few Nursing Training Colleges in the country to be accredited to train Registered Midwives (RM – Diploma) and in 2018, the college has the accreditation to run the Post NAC/NAP Midwifery programme.
The mission of the school is to train skilful, competent and disciplined Nurses / Midwives for the provision of quality Health care. The school’s vision is to be an institution of academic/professional excellence for the training of highly skilled, client- centred and research-oriented Nurses and Midwives for the nation and beyond.
Tuition fees at the Nurses’ and Midwives’ Training College, Tamale is about GHC 2,335 per year. This fee includes feeding fee, examination fee and course registration fee among others.
CONTACT
Phone: (+233) 244 793 966
Email: principal@nmtctamale.edu.gh
Email: academicaffairs@nmtctamale.edu.gh