Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commonly known as UST, Tech or Kwame Tech, is a
KNUST has its roots in the plans of
The Kumasi College of Technology offered admission to its first students to the engineering faculty in 1951 (however, those students started academic work in 1952), and an Act of Parliament gave the university its legal basis as the
The university covers a total land area of 2,512.96 acres (1,016.96 ha).[13] The main campus which is about seven square miles in area, is about eight miles (13 km) to the east of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital.[14]
History
Early history
The Kumasi College of Technology opened officially on 22 January 1952 with 200 teacher training students transferred from
From 1952 to 1955, the School of Engineering[19] prepared students for professional qualifications only. In 1955, the school embarked on courses leading to the University of London Bachelor of Engineering External Degree Examinations.[20]
In 1957, the School of Architecture, Town Planning and Building was inaugurated. Its first students were admitted in January 1958, for professional course.[21]
As the college expanded, it was decided to make the Kumasi College of Technology a purely science and technology institution.[21] In pursuit of this policy, the Teacher Training College, with the exception of the Art School, was transferred in January 1958, to the Winneba Training College; in 1959 the Commerce Department was transferred to Achimota to form the nucleus of the present School of Administration of the University of Ghana, Legon.[20][22]
In December 1960, the
In January 1966, Marr Grounds, an American/Australian artist then living in California, took up an appointment as lecturer in architecture for two years, before moving to the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning in 1968.[26]
The name was changed to University of Science and Technology after the coup of 24 February 1966. The University of Science and Technology was officially inaugurated on Wednesday, 20 November 1961. However, another act of Parliament (Act 559 of 1998) changed the name back to its original version, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.[27]
Organization and administration
Principal officers
The principal officers of the university are the chancellor, chairman of the University Council and vice-chancellor. As of 2018, the position of chancellor was held by the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.[28]
Governing body
Governance is carried out by the
- formulating and carrying out the academic policy of the university[30][31]
- devising and regulating the courses of instruction and study, and supervising research[32]
- regulating the conduct of examinations and the award of degrees, diplomas and certificates[33]
- advising the University Council on the admission of students and the award of scholarships[34]
- reporting on such matters as may be referred to it by the University Council[35]
Student participation in university administration
Students through the
The council operates with a budget that is primarily dispensed to student organizations, but it also funds social events and student initiatives. As the sole representative student government, the KNUST SRC provides student services like most student unions and also performs advocacy on behalf of the student body.[38][39]
Collegiate system
KNUST has, since January 2005, transformed from its previous centralized system of administration into a decentralized collegiate university. Under this system, the faculties have been condensed into six colleges.[40]
The university had been administered on the faculty-based system. This led to administrative difficulties as new faculties and institutes were created to meet the ever-growing academic pursuits of students. To solve this problem, a collegiate system was officially adopted on 29 November 2004. On 5 April 2005, the pioneering provosts were inducted and invested into office at the Great Hall of the KNUST.[41]
The colleges are semi-autonomous, which means that they are given the power to largely run on their own without much dependence on the central administration for financial support. A college registrar, finance officer and librarian assist the provosts. Under them are the faculties, centres and institutes, headed by deans and directors. As heads of the colleges, the provosts provide academic and administrative leadership for the colleges and oversee their overall running.[42]
Housing and accommodation
There are numerous KNUST approved hostels, mostly in close proximity to the main campus. Students of all financial backgrounds have their accommodation needs catered for.[43] There are six halls of residence at the Kumasi campus, each administered by a hall council consisting of senior and junior members. There are few hostels on campus like the GUSSS hostels, Brunei, and Tek credit hostel. The executive head is the hall master, who is assisted by a senior tutor. There is a hall bursar and other supporting staff.[44]
Halls of residence
- University Hall (Katanga)[6]
- Unity Hall (Conti)[6]
- Independence Hall[6][45]
- Queens Hall[46][6]
- Republic Hall[6]
- Africa Hall[24][45][47]
Hostels
About 60% of the student population is non-resident. There are private hostels around the campus and in Kumasi for students who, as a result of the limited facilities/rooms, could not be admitted as resident students.[48]
There are facilities on campus where non-resident students can rest between lectures and study before they leave for their homes and hostels.[49]
In January 2014, the top floor of the Crystal Rose Hostel[50] caught fire while most students were on vacation. The cause of the fire is still not known.[51]
International students
There is a large multinational international community at KNUST as a result of the high standards of education. There is an international student association that sees to the interests of foreign students such as accommodation, orientation and campus tours.[52]
Academics
From the 2010/11 academic year some of the colleges operate a two-tier system, while others maintain their three-tier system.
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources CANR
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension[53]
- Department of Animal Sciences[54]
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences[55]
- Department of Horticulture[56]
- Department of
- Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources
- Department of Agroforestry[citation needed]
- Department of Watershed Management
- Department of Forest Management
- Department of Wildlife and Range Management
- Department of Wood Science and Technology
- Faculty of Forest Resources Technology
- Department of Forest Recreation
- Department of Land Reclamation and Rehabilitation
- Department of Social Forestry
- Department of Wood Processing and Marketing
- Department of
College of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
- Department of Medical Diagnostics
- Department of Medical Imaging
- Department of Physiotherapy and Sports Science
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Department of Pharmacology
- Department of Pharmacognosy
- Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- Department of Herbal Medicine
- Department of
- School of Dentistry
- School of Medical Sciences
- School of Veterinary Medicine
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Law[57]
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Department of Economics
- Department of English
- Department of Geography and Rural Development
- Department of Political Studies
- Department of Modern Languages currently called the department of Language and Communication Sciences.
- Department of Religious Studies
- Department of Sociology and Social Work
- School of Business[58]
Colleges under the two-tier system (Provost/Head of Department):
College of Art and Built Environment
- The College of Art and Built Environment formerly known as College of Architecture and Planning came into existence in January 2005 as part of the restructuring of the University into a Collegiate System. In the restructuring, the Faculty of Environmental and Development studies (FEDS) and the Institute of Land Management and Development (ILMAD) were merged to form the College. FEDS comprised three teaching departments: Department of Architecture, department of Building Technology and Department of Housing and Planning Research. ILMAD comprised two departments, Department of Land Economy and the Land Resources Centre. The college currently comprises two faculties, ten teaching departments and one research institute:
- Department of Communication Design
- Department of General Art Studies
- Department of Painting and Sculpture
- Department of Integrated Rural Art/Industry
- Department of Industrial Art
- Department of Educational Innovations in Science and Technology
- Department of Publishing Studies
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Building Technology
- Department of Land Economy
- Department of Planning
- Centre for Settlements Studies
- Centre for Land Studies
- Department of
College of Engineering
- Department of Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Aerospace Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Computer Engineering
- Department of Telecommunication Engineering
- Department of Geological Engineering
- Department of Geodetic Engineering
- Department of Geomatic Engineering
- Department of Materials Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Petroleum Engineering
- Department of
College of Science[59]
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Environmental Science
- Department of Food Science and Technology
- Department of Mathematics[60]
- Department of Optometry and Visual Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology
- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences
- Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
Institute of Distance Learning
In the year 2005, KNUST adopted Distance Learning as a viable complement to the conventional face-to-face system of education. This decision was made to offer opportunity for people to pursue academic programmes with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, while still on full-time employment.[42][61]
In October 2007, the Academic Board changed the status of the Faculty of Distance Learning to the Institute of Distance Learning.[42]
Library and digital resources
The KNUST Library provides information in electronic and print formats to staff and students mainly to support teaching, learning and research in science and technology for national development. It is a depository library for all materials published in Ghana and for international institutions and organisations like the World Bank and other United Nations Agencies.[62]
Digital services are available through the Open Educational Resource (OER) as well as the DSpace repository.[63]
- The Open educational resources (OER)[64] component of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology fosters collaboration on curricula, course materials, and content; generates connections between disciplines, teachers, and learners; and inspires use of educational materials in a more effective way.[65]
- KNUST Online Repository[66] is the university's digital repository. Data for the repository is still being added.
Affiliated institutions
- Accra Institute of Technology
- Akim State University College[67]
- All Nations University College
- Central University College
- Kaaf University College
- DataLink University College(DLUC)
- Garden City University College
- Ghana Telecom University College
- Ho Polytechnic
- Osei Tutu II Institute for Advanced ICT Studies
- Regent University College
- Spiritan Institute / Spiritan University College[68][69]
In December 2019, an agreement was signed between the Gambian government and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to set up Science, Technology and Engineering University in The Gambia. In the accord, the administrative and teaching faculties will be set up, coached by and affiliated to KNUST.[70]
Research centres
- Bureau of Integrated Research and Development
- Centre for Biodiversity Utilisation and Development (CBUD)
- Centre for Cultural and African Studies
- Centre for Human Studies
- Dairy/Beef Research Station
- The Brew-Hammond Energy Centre, College Of Engineering[71]
- Kumasi Center For Collaborative Research(KCCR) in collaboration with the German Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine[72]
- National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS)
- Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC)
- Laboratory For Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA)
Media
Radio
Focus FM (94.3 FM) is the university's official radio station. Among its notable programmes are Morning Show, Drive Time, Teknokrat and Community Watch.[73]
About Focus FM
Focus FM is a network radio positioned on campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. It was established in the year 2000 A.D. The stakeholders are the UNIVERSITY, Student Representative Counsel and the Graduate Student Association of Ghana. The center targets for the status quo of the station is to inform, teach and entertain the whole college network and the encompassing communities. The important supply of investment is from students’ contribution into Focus FM improvement account.[74][75]
How Focus FM Is Defined
Focus FM is focused not only to participate in the activities of the community, but in addition to allow the university to take part in the life of the station. This is why it is differentiated from other commercial and state radio – neither of which is seeks public participation, except when it suits them to do so. Focus FM offers democratic access to the activity of programme making itself rather than being communicated at, people are offered the opportunity to communicate themselves.
Finance
Focus FM is a not-for-profit station. It secures its income from; Focus FM Development Fund, a form of commercial Sponsorship focused at serving the community, and a range of community / listener supported fundraisers.
Ghanaian Journalists Who Trained At Focus FM
- Nana Kwadwo Jantuah
- Edward Oppong Marfo
- Kwame Adinkra
- Kojo Akoto Boateng
- Louis Kwame Sakyiamah (Lexis Bill)
- Anita Kuma
- Kojo Akoto Boateng
Television
TEK TV is the official television station of the university.[76]
Awards and recognition
In November 2019, KNUST was ranked as the best university in Ghana and West Africa by U.S. News & World Report and still holds the record in 2020.[77] It was also ranked 14th in Africa and 706th in the world, with a global score of 42.4.[78]
KNUST was the first university in West Africa to have won the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Pan African Universities Debate Championship consecutively.[79][80] KNUST is the first university in Ghana to win the Ghana national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.[81] The university has also won the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition a record three consecutive times.[82][83] In December 2020 KNUST became the first university in Africa to have won the Pan African Universities Debating Championship for 3 consecutive times.[84][85]
Notable people
Notable alumni
- UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kofi Annan had a part of his education at KNUST
- Kwaku Aning and Hackman Owusu-Agyeman are other diplomats who graduated from KNUST
- Aliu Mahama Vice-president of Ghana from 2001 to 2008, studied at KNUST
- Edward Kwame Wiredu, former Chief Justice of Ghana, was also a student at KNUST
- Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former first lady of Ghana, is an alumna
- Samira Bawumia, current second lady of Ghana, also is an alumna
- Thomas Mensah, former CEO of GNPC and chemical engineer graduated from KNUST College of Engineering
- Alex Mould, CEO of Ghana Gas
- Benjamin Asante
- Charles Darku, former CEO of Tullow Ghana Limited
- Amma Darko, the novelist attended KNUST
- Chris Attoh, actor attended KNUST
- Nana Otuo Siriboe, the Juabenhene who is also Chairman of Council of State
- Ernest Aryeetey, economist and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana graduated from the institution
- Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Senior Minister graduated from the institution
- Pamela Mbabazi , Chairperson of the Uganda Planning Authority was also a student at KNUST.
Notable academics
- Francis Allotey, mathematician
- Aba Andam, physicist
- Ablade Glover, artist
- Marr Grounds, American / Australian artist and lecturer in architecture in 1966–7[26]
- Thomas Mensah, chemical engineer
- Letitia Obeng, research scientist
- Maxwell Arhin, physical geographer and researcher
SRC Presidency
2023 academic year
Yvonne Osei Adobea emerged victorious in the SRC presidential elections at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on July 26, 2023. This historic win marked the first time a female had assumed leadership of the Student's Representative Council at KNUST in its 71-year history.[86]
Recognitions and awards
On June 1, 2023, the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings revealed that KNUST had been honored as the top university globally for delivering quality education (SDG 4).[87]
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