Type Public Campus Suburban area Founded November 2004 | Established November 2004 Phone +233 50 944 1944 | |
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Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jerry Samuel Yaw Kuma Location Tarkwa, Western Region, Ghana Colours Black, White, Cardinal, Pigment Green and Gold Address Tarkwa - Esiama Rd, Tarkwa, Ghana Motto Knowledge, Truth and Excellence Colors Black, White, Gold, Cardinal Similar University of Educatio, University for Develop, University of Cape Coast, Kwame Nkrumah University, University of Ghana Profiles | ||
University of mines and technology umat tarkwa chamber of mines hall week 2007 float
The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) is located at Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana. UMaT is one of the public universities in the country.
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History
UMaT was first established as the Tarkwa Technical Institute in 1952. In 1961, the university was changed to the Tarkwa School of Mines to help train manpower for the mining industry in Ghana. UMaT became a faculty of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1976. On 1 October 2001, UMaT was elevated to university college status and was known as the Western University College of KNUST. UMaT became a fully fledged University in November 2004 by act of Parliament (Act 677). In 2008, the first batch of Students graduated in Tarkwa without going to KNUST for the ceremony.
Faculty of Engineering
The faculty of engineering has the following departments:
Faculty of Mineral Resources Technology
The faculty of mineral resources technology is the only such one in the West Africa sub-region for training high-level personnel in the mineral industry and continues to attract students from countries in the sub-region and across the Africa continent. The Faculty consists of six (6) Academic Departments which offer the four-year BSc programmes in: