KNUST Releases 2025/2026 Academic Calendar With Dates for New Students’ Arrival, Orientation, Exams
- KNUST has provided a new update to students of the university on the 2025/2026 academic calendar
- The university, in a statement, provided details on arrival dates, orientation, and course registration
- KNUST also provided details on when lectures would start and when the exam sessions would start
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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has announced details of how the 2025/2026 academic year will unfold.
Source: Facebook
The announcement was published on the university's official website.
KNUST outlines 2025/2026 academic calendar
For the first semester of the 2025/2026 calendar, virtual orientation, which is an introductory online session before arrival, will be done on Friday, January 2, 2025, before the freshers officially arrive on campus on Tuesday, January 6, 2025.
On Wednesday, January 7, residential orientation will commence for freshers, with academic orientation beginning on the same day and concluding on Friday, January 9, 2025.
The online course registration for freshers will also begin on Monday, January 5, 2025, and end on Thursday, January 29, 2025.
Students will also begin biometric registration on Monday, January 12, 2025, and end on Friday, February 6, 2025.
Source: UGC
Shifting attention to teaching and learning, lectures for newly admitted students will begin on Monday, January 12, 2025, and conclude on Friday, April 3, 2025, with mid-semester exams scheduled for Monday, February 23, 2025, to Friday, February 27, 2025.
The end-of-semester exams will meanwhile take place from Tuesday, April 7, 2025, to Friday, April 24, 2025.
The Facebook video shared by Voice of Knust is below:
KNUST opens accommodation portal for new year
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) earlier announced that its Hall Accommodation Portal had opened on December 19, 2025.
In a post on its X page at the time, the university added that it officially opened its off-campus Kumasi accommodation portal.
"The Hall Accommodation Portal of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) opens [on] Friday, 19th December 2025, at exactly 9:00 a.m. All admitted applicants who have paid their fees are advised to prepare ahead and log in promptly once the portal goes live."
KNUST issues statement to freshers
The university shared an update with newly admitted students having trouble accepting their admission offers, mainly due to a name mismatch, detailing the steps that successful applicants facing problems could take to resolve them.
With this, it advised such students to send an email to admissions@knust.edu.gh with the subject 'Name Mismatch'.
It added that the newly admitted applicants must also submit documents such as their National Identity Card (Ghana Card) and Birth Certificate, which reflect the applicant's correct name.
Ghanaian lady delights over admission to UG
Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that a young Ghanaian lady could not contain her joy after she took to social media to announce that she had gained admission to study at the University of Ghana.
She shared a video on TikTok announcing that she had been offered a Bachelor of Science in Administration program at the university and was excited, having waited four years to be accepted.
Proofreading by Bruce Douglas, copy editor at YEN.com.gh.
Source: YEN.com.gh
