Department of Computer Science

The Department currently runs one undergraduate programme in Computer Science and three postgraduate programmes in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Cyber Security and Digital Forensic. The Department also runs parallel programmes. In today’s rapidly changing world, maintaining global competitiveness requires the talents of a well-rounded, holistic individual with technical knowledge and business acumen to address challenging issues. The Computer Science Department is unique in developing skills in Information Technology. Welcome to the Department.

Established in 1977, the Department of Computer Science in KNUST serves as a center for computing education and research at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. There are strong research groups focusing on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Computer theory and Scientific computing, and Software Engineering. The goal of these groups is to use technology as a means to address national and international issues and to foster national development. Additionally, there is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and transnational research on applications that encourages basic and advanced research.

The Department of Computer Science is one of the five departments of the Faculty of Physical and Computational Sciences of the College of Science. The Department started with a 1-year certificate course in Data Processing which has currently been stopped. Many years down the line, the Department now runs a 4 -year degree programme in Computer Science. The Department was the first Department in the country to start a degree programme in Computer Science and this has been recognized by the government through the Ministry of Communication. As such, in late 2007, the Department was presented with an award during the first Information Communication and Technology Award night.

• Location: Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa
• Website: https://cs.knust.edu.gh/