Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is a technical university located in Kumasi, Ghana.
It is the second public university to be established in the country. It was founded as the Kumasi College of Technology in 1952.[1] The nucleus of the college was formed from 200 teacher training students transferred from Achimota in the Greater Accra Region. The college was affiliated to the University of London.[2] In 1961, the college was granted full university status.[3]
The main university campus which is about seven square miles in area, is located about eight miles to the east of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital.[1]
Organization
The university has six colleges. Each of these colleges has departments grouped into faculties under it.
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Faculty of Agriculture
- Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension
- Department of Animal Science
- Department of Crop Science
- Department of Horticulture
- Department of Soil Science
- Boadi Cattle Project, Boadi-Kumasi
- University Research Station, Awomasi-Kumasi
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources
- Department of Agroforestry
- Department of Freshwater Fisheries and Watershed Management
Faculty of Forest Resources Technology (Sunyani Campus)
- Department of Agroforestry
- Department of Freshwater Fisheries and Watershed Management
- Department of Silviculture and Forest Management
- Department of Wildlife and Range Managemet
College of Architecture and Planning
Faculty of Architecture and Building Technology
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Building Technology
Faculty of Planning and Land Economy
- Department of Land Economy
- Department of Planning
Institute of Human Settlements Research
- Centre for Land Studies
- Centre for Settlements Studies
Institute of Science and Technology for Africa
- Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Centre for Life Sciences
- Centre for Technology and Environment
College of Art and Social Sciences
Faculty of Fine Art
- Department of Communication Design
- Department of General Art Studies
- Department of Painting and Sculpture
Faculty of Industrial Art
- Department of Integrated Rural Art/Industry
- Department of Industrial Art
- Department of Publishing Studies
Faculty of Law
- Department of Commercial Law
- Department of Private Law
- Department of Public Law
Faculty of Social Science
- Department of Economics and Industrial Management
- Department of English
- Department of Geography and Rural Development
- Department of History and Political Studies
- Department of Modern Languages
- Department of Religious Studies
- Department of Sociology and Social Work
KNUST School of Business
- Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences
- Department of Marketing and Corporate Strategy
- Department of Managerial Sciences
- Department of Services Management
Research Centre
- Centre for Cultural and African Studies
College of Engineering
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Geodetic Engineering
Faculty of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Petroleum Engineering
- Department of Material Engineering
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department of Computer Engineering
- Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical and Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Agricultural Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Aerospace Engineering
College of Health Sciences
This college has three faculties and one research centre.
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology
- Department of Nursing
- Department of Sports and Exercise Science
Faculty of Medicine
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
- Department of Anatomy
- Department of Behavioural Sciences
- Department of Child Health
- Department of Clinical Microbiology
- Department of Community Health
- Department of E.N.T
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Molecular Medicine
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Department of Pathology
- Department of Physiology
- Department of Radiology
- Department of Surgery
Faculty of Pharmacy
- Department of Clinical and Social Pharmacy
- Department of Herbal Medicine
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- Department of Pharmacognosy
- Department of Pharmacology
Research Centre
- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research into Tropical Medicine
College of Science
Faculty of Biosciences
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
- Department of Environmental Sciences
- Department of Food Science and Technology
- Department of Optometry and Visual Science
- Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology
Faculty of Distance Learning
- Centre for Distance and Continuing Education
- Kumasi Virtual Centre for Information Technology
Faculty of Physical Sciences
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics
- National Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Halls of Residence
- Africa Hall
- Independence Hall
- Queen's Hall
- Republic Hall
- Unity Hall
- University Hall(Katanga)
See also
List of universities in Ghana
References
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External links
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