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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was established in 1951, and located in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital of Ghana as the Kumasi College of Technology. It is Ghana’s foremost institution for Science and Technology education and one of the finest in Africa. The University has a student capacity of nearly 50,000 comprising undergraduate and postgraduate students from all over the world, especially, from the African continent, offering courses ranging from Art, Business, Law, Science and Technology. The KNUST presents an environment for teaching, research and entrepreneurship training in science and technology for the industrial and socio-economic development of Ghana and the whole of the African continent and offers service to the community. The main university campus, which is about seven square miles in area, is located about eight miles (13 km) to the east of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital.

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