Accra Institute of Technology graduates 572 students, including eight PhDs
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- Accra Institute of Technology awarded degrees to 572 graduates at its 22nd graduation ceremony.
- The graduating class included eight PhD scholars, 69 master’s students and 495 bachelor’s students.
- The new graduates brought AIT’s cumulative number of PhD graduates to more than 100, according to the institution’s president.
The Accra Institute of Technology graduated 572 students at its 22nd graduation ceremony, awarding degrees across doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s programmes.
The ceremony included eight PhD graduates, 69 master’s graduates and 495 bachelor’s graduates. The bachelor’s group comprised 405 students from campus-based programmes and 90 from AIT’s Open University programmes.
The graduation of eight new PhD scholars took AIT’s cumulative number of doctoral graduates above 100. The institution has now produced doctoral graduates on 14 occasions.
AIT President Prof. Clement K. Dzidonu described the result as a milestone for the relatively young university. He also said that more than half of AIT’s PhD graduates had reached professorial rank within three years of graduating.
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