KNUST Provides Instructions to Newly Admitted Students Facing Challenges With Admission Offers

KNUST Provides Instructions to Newly Admitted Students Facing Challenges With Admission Offers

  • KNUST is working tirelessly towards tirelessness in a bid to ensure that applicants who were offered admission are not faced with challenges
  • This comes after the university, in a video advertisement, informed applicants with challenges accepting their admission on the steps to take
  • Ghanaians who thronged the comments section of the post made by KNUST shared varied opinions on the admission

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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has shown commitment to ensuring that applicants offered admission to study various programmes at the university complete their admission process.

This is in light of a new update provided to newly admitted students struggling to accept their admission offers, mainly due to a name mismatch.

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KNUST makes announcement to students with issues about their admission offers Photo credit: @KNUSTGH/X
Source: Facebook

The university, in a video advertisement shared on its social media pages on December 17, detailed the steps successful applicants facing problems could take to resolve them.

Wth this, it stated that admitted students having difficulty accepting their admission offers must send an email to admissions@knust.edu.gh with the subject "Name Mismatch.

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It added that the newly admitted applicants must also attach their National Identity Card (Ghana Card), Birth Certificate, or other documents showing the applicant's correct name.

The newly admitted students were also admonished to attach their applicant identity number, full name, and phone number.

The video concluded with an assurance that the admissions office would ensure that newly admitted students facing such challenges would have their issues resolved.

The 50-second video, which had generated over 10,000 views and 20 comments at the time of writing the report, was captioned:

"KNUST Admissions Notice: Can’t accept your admission due to name mismatch or related issues? Act fast."
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KNUST releaes2025/2026 admissions list Photo credit: @KNUSTGH/Facebook
Source: UGC

The post is below:

Reactions to KNUST admissions

Social media users who thronged the comment section of the video asked questions about the ongoing admission process.

Zahara Tamimu commented:

"Please, I sent them the email last week, and they said they’d work on it, but as of today, I still can't accept the admission offer."

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@MensshChoices indicated:

"Please, when will fee-paying applicants receive their provisional admission letter?"

@TheSameGuy9 added:

"Chale, KNUST, no size ooo, herh, correct Uni!!"

@KofiApp25499753 indicated:

"What's the account detail to pay fees?"

heuglyboy stated:

"Because of this, a friend couldn't come to KNUST two years ago because of poor human-to-human communication between your staff and my friend."

Bryt@ges @brytpages asked:

"Please, when will fee-paying applicants receive their provisional admission letter?"

@StickieO wrote:

"Please, can a postgraduate student make part payment of the fees?"

Boy gains admission to UG, thanks Alpha Hour

Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that an SHS graduate who sat for WASSCE was beaming with joy upon realising he had been admitted to the University of Ghana to study BSc Medical Laboratory Sciences.

He shared a video of himself in a happy mood as he sang along to the Nigerian gospel song "Not by Might" by Moses Bliss with joy.

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He singled out Alpha Hour for praise, stressing that constant prayer had paid off.

Source: YEN.com.gh

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Philip Boateng Kessie (Head of Human Interest Desk) Philip Boateng Kessie started writing for YEN.com.gh in 2022 and is the Head of the Human Interest desk. He has over six years of experience in journalism and graduated from the University of Cape Coast in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies. Philip previously served as a reporter for Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and as a content writer for Scooper News. He has a certificate in Google News Initiative News Lab courses in Advanced Digital Reporting and Fighting Misinformation. Email: philip.kessie@yen.com.gh.