George Grant University of Mines and Technology


The University of Mines and Technology is a public university located at Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana.

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 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. In 2008, the first batch of Students graduated in Tarkwa without going to KNUST for the ceremony. On January 12, 2018 the university was renamed to George Grant University of Mines and Technology in honour of Paa Grant.

Faculties

Faculty of Engineering

The faculty of engineering has the following departments:
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 Academic Departments which offer the four-year BSc programmes in: