Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration


The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration is a public university spread over four campuses and made up of four schools, four research centers located at Greenhill in Accra, Ghana. The location of GIMPA, Greenhill, was named by the former Rector, Nicholas T. Clerk The name, "Greenhill", is a reference to the lush greenery and hilly topography of the main campus, as well as its location in Legon which was historically on the periphery of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. It was established as a public university by an Act of Parliament in 2004. The institute was established in 1961 by the Government of Ghana with assistance from the United Nations Special Fund Project and was called the Institute of Public Administration. It is coeducational.
GIMPA offers master's and executive master's degree programmes in business administration, public administration, development management, governance, leadership and technology.

Schools/faculties

GIMPA's academic programmes are also accredited by the National Accreditation Board. The Institute is made up of five schools, namely:

Undergraduate programmes

The faculty of law at GIMPA was established in 2010 and has quickly grown from its small size of about seventy students and five full-time faculty to over four hundred students and twenty-six full-time faculty in addition to fourteen adjuncts. Faculty of Law, GIMPA brag of the first and only ultra modern moot court facility in Ghana.