Study at Kwame Nkrumah University (KNU)

This article contains information on Kwame Nkrumah University (KNU), a private university located in Zambia. It contains the KNU brief profile, application, courses, fees, admissions, & contact details. It focuses primarily on everything you need to know about Kwame Nkrumah University, which is also known as KNU.

Profile of the Kwame Nkrumah University

The institution was opened in 1967 as Kabwe Teachers Training College. It trained junior secondary school teachers at its inception. Four years later, the president of Zambia at the time, Kenneth Kaunda, renamed the college Nkrumah Teachers College in honour of Kwame Nkrumah, the founding president of Ghana. During the period when Levy Mwanawasa was president (2002–2008), the college began transforming into a university, a process that concluded while Michael Sata was in office (2011–2014).

Kwame Nkrumah University was established by Part IV, Section 14 of the Higher Education Act No. 4 of 2013. At its inception, the university could only accommodate 600 students, a number that has since increased to 6,000. As of August 2016, it employed 74 full-time academic staff. At that time, the university was undergoing a major infrastructure expansion, including four student hostels, each capable of accommodating 600 students. Hua Jiang Investment Limited, a Chinese construction firm, is carrying out the construction works, on which the government of Zambia had spent in excess of ZMW 57,518,410 (approximately . US$5.68 million). The university held its first graduation ceremony under its own university letterheads in August 2015.

Nkrumah University has two campus locations. The main campus, Munkoyo Street Campus, is about 3 km from the Kabwe city centre. Nkrumah University has recently acquired the PAID-ESA campus along the same street (formerly the Pan African Institute for Development, East/South Africa); this campus will help expand the capacity of the university.

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