African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana is a postgraduate centre of excellence in mathematical sciences in Accra. Established in 2012 with the support of the Government of Ghana, it is the third centre created under the AIMS Global Network (the AIMS Next Einstein Initiative) and is a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence. Its master's programmes are accredited by the National Accreditation Board of Ghana, and the centre has graduated more than 500 students, 33% of them women.

AIMS is a pan-African network of centres for postgraduate training, research and public engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It was founded in 2003 in South Africa by the physicist Prof. Neil Turok and later replicated in Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon and Rwanda. Its mission is to empower talented young Africans to be creative leaders in science and technology, and its stated values are excellence, equity and inclusion, pan-Africanism and integrity.

AIMS Ghana offers three master's programmes: the Master in Mathematical Sciences, an intensive residential structured programme run with the University of Ghana, the University of Cape Coast and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; the Master of Mathematical Sciences for Teachers (MMST), a two-year part-time hybrid programme for secondary-level mathematics teachers; and the African Master's in Machine Intelligence (AMMI), a one-year intensive programme launched at AIMS Ghana in 2019. It also runs the Girls in Mathematical Sciences Programme, a nine-month hybrid enrichment programme for female Senior High School students.

Teaching follows a residential model. In the structured master's, students study two subjects at a time for three weeks each, with morning lectures and afternoon problem-solving and computing sessions, each course carrying 30 hours of contact time. Visiting lecturers from universities and laboratories around the world teach alongside resident tutors, and a Tutoring Fellowship lets postdoctoral and doctoral researchers work as dedicated teaching assistants. The curriculum has a large scientific-computing component, with students having continuous access to computing, internet and electricity, and exposure to English and French. The programme draws on applied fields relevant to Africa's development such as finance, health, food production, climate change and natural resource management.

Students come from across Africa. The June 2026 graduating class of 130 came from 24 African countries. Tuition, study materials and housing for the structured master's are covered by full or partial scholarships awarded to all accepted students, and the working language is English; international students are advised to take an English course before arrival.