AIT Deepens Africa’s Tech Talents, Graduates Eighth Batch of Ph.Ds

Nosa Alekhuogie

The Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), a technology-focused private university has further helped to increase Africa’s rising number of scholars in technology related fields as the university graduated its eighth batch of Ph. Ds during its recently held 16th Graduation Ceremony at the University’s Knowledge City Campus (KCC), Kokomlemle, Accra.

This brings the total number of Ph.Ds graduated at AIT since 2016 to 49 in the fields of Engineering, Business Administration, Education, and Information Technology.

According to a statement released by the university, “This achievement marks not only an AIT history but also a history in the annals of private university education in this country. This event also saw the graduation of 219 Bachelor’s and 33 Master’s degree holders from both the campus-based undergraduate programs as well as to the Open University undergraduate and postgraduate programs. It was also witnessed with the deployment of current technology that facilitated the organization of a virtual graduation experience specifically for majority of the students using the Google Meet platform.”

Founded to close the technology research and manpower gaps across the African continent, AIT is ranked at the top as a private university in Ghana by the Ghana Tertiary Awards and still holds since 2018, the coveted Best in Technology-Focused University – Ghana Award by Global Business Insight of the United Kingdom.

The Chairman of AIT Board of Trustees, Professor Edward Ayensu, in his address to the congregation, said: “All indicators point to the fact that AIT as a university with its high-powered and academically distinguished Board of Trustees are meeting several envisaged milestones as a young and growing dynamic institution which is showing all the encouraging signs of becoming a world-class university.”

Ayensu assured the congregation and all stakeholders that AIT would not relent in its efforts to “ensure the full fulfillment of the vision to deliver quality university education and facilitate cutting-edge research work for the benefit of our students.”

A pan-African university, AIT is a technology-focused university committed to academic excellence and cutting-edge scientific and industrial research and research and development (R&D)work.

President of AIT, Professor Clement Dzidonu, outlined great strides by the university over the past year in improving its academic program offerings as well as its enrollments.

He added that “AIT is currently doing Ph.D. research work in Engineering, Information Technology, Education, and Business Administration with an enrollment of a number of the academic and senior administrative staff from almost all the public and private universities in Ghana”. He explained how achieving such a feat within the span of ten years is nothing short of an academic marvel given the fact that AIT has successfully offered, run, and graduated students on an internationally benchmarked Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree program within a context where the Ph.D. per capita of Ghana is extremely low.

Dzidonu encouraged the graduating class to avail themselves and make the best of all opportunities that may come their way after graduation.