The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been labeled as the best technical university in Africa. It has also been rated the fifth best in the world after Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Tokyo, Japan.

The Vice Chancellor of KNUST, Prof Kwesi Andam announced this at this year’s matriculation held over the weekend. The University admitted 4,861 students out of 11,386 who qualified for admission for the 2003/2004 academic year, which is only 36 per cent of the total number of applicants.

Prof Andam attributed the low intake to lack of accommodation and other faculty facilities and announced that admission of students from less endowed Senior Secondary Schools would “explode into hundreds, come next academic year”.

According to him, the school was able to admit 59 students this year, “but come next academic year, the number will be higher”.

Prof Andam said the admission of students from such schools was to address the injustice that had plagued university admissions in the country.