The University of Technology and Applied Sciences (UTAS), Navrongo, has matriculated over 1,500 students for the 2025–2026 academic year, with Vice-Chancellor Prof. Albert Luguterah announcing significant infrastructure projects and highlighting the institution’s steady growth.
Addressing students, parents, staff, and guests at the ceremony on Saturday, February 7, 2026, Prof. Luguterah described matriculation as “a covenant between the matriculants and the institution, binding a journey of learning, growth, responsibility, and transformation.
He said UTAS is positioning itself as “a community of thinkers, innovators, creators and problem solvers,” with a mission to become a centre of excellence in technology, applied sciences and human development.
The Vice-Chancellor disclosed that the university received 3,080 applications during the admission cycle, representing a 10.6 percent increase over the previous year. Out of the total, 2,221 applicants were offered admission, while postgraduate admissions increased by 32.5 percent A total of 1,546 students eventually enrolled, slightly above the 1,539 recorded in the preceding academic year.
“These numbers tell a compelling story of growth, confidence and the rising stature of UTAS,” he said, adding that postgraduate programmes “are becoming a major pillar in institutional growth.”
Prof. Luguterah outlined several infrastructure upgrades aimed at improving teaching, learning, and student welfare at the Navrongo campus, including the procurement of new classroom desks and a major upgrade of the university’s internet services.
“With regard to your health, our university clinic is undergoing a major upgrade into a fully-fledged hospital with a 24-7 service,” he stated.
He further announced that tenders had been opened for a two-storey, six-unit lecture hall and that approvals had been granted for a new female hostel, an in-cloud computer laboratory, and the continuation of work on four-storey lecture, office, and laboratory complexes.
“These developments are not abstract plans. They are real, visible, and progressing,” the Vice-Chancellor noted, adding that the upgrading of internal road networks would soon begin.
He attributed the university’s achievements to the support of government agencies and political leaders, including Members of Parliament in the region, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Presidency, and UTAS’s Governing Council.
Prof. Luguterah urged them to uphold discipline and integrity, warning that UTAS has “zero tolerance for academic dishonesty in discipline or behaviour that threatens the safety and harmony of our community.”
He challenged the fresh cohort to take advantage of academic, research, and leadership opportunities available at the institution, declaring that “Ghana needs thinkers. Africa needs innovators. The world needs problem solvers.”
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