The Accra Institute of Technology (AIT) has held its 22nd Graduation Ceremony, with 572 students graduating from its doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s programmes.
The ceremony saw 8 PhD, 69 master’s and 495 bachelor’s graduates receive their degrees. The bachelor’s graduates comprised 405 from AIT’s campus-based programmes and 90 from its Open University programmes.
A key highlight of the ceremony was the graduation of eight new PhD scholars, taking AIT’s cumulative number of PhD graduates to over 100.
The University has now graduated PhD scholars for the 14th time. AIT President, Prof. Clement K. Dzidonu, described the achievement as a significant milestone for the relatively young university and noted that more than half of AIT’s PhD graduates have attained professorial rank within three years of graduating.
AIT’s impact is also increasingly evident across Ghana’s higher education sector.
According to Prof. Dzidonu, faculty members of most public and private universities in Ghana include PhD graduates of AIT, while academic and senior administrative staff from almost all public and private universities have undertaken doctoral studies at the University.
The University’s postgraduate research programmes span Engineering, Information Technology, Education and Business Administration, supporting AIT’s commitment to research, innovation and Ghana’s science, technology and innovation agenda.
At the undergraduate level, the 22nd Graduation added 495 new bachelor’s graduates to the AIT alumni community, alongside 69 master’s graduates, further strengthening the pool of skilled professionals entering Ghana’s workforce.
The graduation therefore marks more than an annual academic milestone.
It reflects AIT’s growing contribution to Ghana’s human capital development, postgraduate research and the strengthening of teaching and academic leadership across the country’s university system**.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
