This Year, the Kings College is exceedingly Superior
posted Friday, July 1, 2005
Revised Tuesday, July 5, 2005
The Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (KNUST) last week released the roster of
the first year medical school class for September 2005 entry,
and Prempeh is on top again.
In addition, the University filled
50% of its Civil Engineering class with Prempeh graduates. The Electrical Engineering class at
KNUST is made up of 80% Prempeh graduates, while the Biochemistry class comprises of 90% Prempeh products.
The medical school admissions record was not surprising.
These are our 9 contestants (including the reserves) at the 2004 National Science & Maths Quiz competition when Prempeh website visited them at Accra during the Quiz.
The Captain of the team, Louis Oteng Gyimah is in the center. 100% of those who chose Medicine made it to the medical school this year. None of the other schools produced this many.
Add to this list the other Prempeh non-Quiz contestants who gained admission, and this is one of the largest contributions ever made toward a medical school class.
The Quiz trio of Richard Adjei Mensah,
Dwobeng Eben and Louis Oteng Gyimah have all received admission to
the University.
The admission roster of the first year class has just been posted on the campus
and the names of these brilliant Prempeh graduates are on the list. They will enroll in September 2005.
Dwobeng and Richard, who chose Electrical Engineering, were both accepted to a freshman class that consists of 80% Prempeh products.
Richard was the first on the list, meaning that he is the highest-ranked in the class since he had the best SSSCE result.
In fact, all the Quiz contestants, including the reserves, were accepted to either the medical
school or the engineering school. The quiz reserves, particularly Samson Osei Kwaku, who scored 7A's at
the SSSCE, and Samuel and Percy, were all admitted.
Solomon Abankwah, who scored 8A's in SSSCE is listed as the highest-ranked in the medical school class, while Louis, the captain of the Quiz team, is ranked 15th.
Prempeh boys top -- again -- the list of people accepted to the medical school this year.
The only Prempeh boys who did not get into the medical school are the ones who chose to study other subjects, such as Dwobeng and Richard.
Prempeh's record is vastly outstanding because not only did the Royal School produce the highest number of students for
each of the Sciences, but the highest-ranked student in each academic department in the Sciences, as noted above, is a Prempeh product.
Prempeh, which has produced more doctors in Ghana than any other school, has a tradition of sending a large number of students to
the nation's medical schools. In the 1960s and 70s, especially, Prempeh used to send a record
15-20 students to each medical school, which is why a large percentage of the nation's physician are Prempeh products.
The outstanding list includes the current W.H.O. Assistant Director-General, Dr. Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, who has global responsibilities in the health delivery system
throughout the world. The list also includes the Dean of the Medical School that accepted these very students - Prof. E. Tsiri Agbenyega, Dean, School of Medical Sciences of The Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science & Technology.
Prempeh topped first year admissions at KNUST last year and is widely expected to repeat it this year. Further,
Prempeh is producing the highest number number of students not only for the medical school but also for the School of Engineering this year.
The number of Prempeh boys in the first year class at the University of Ghana far
exceeds the number at KNUST, and it has been said that one out of every three male students at the nation's premier university
is a product of Prempeh College.
prempeh.org will bring you the breakdown of first year students from KNUST Medical School this year and show you how many students each school produced.
