The College which is accredited by the National Accreditation Board and affiliated to the University for Development Studies (UDS) is running degree and diploma courses in B.Sc. Accounting, Bachelor in Business Administration, B.Sc. Computer Science and Information Technology, B.Sc. Agriculture for Social Change and B.Ed in Basic Education.

 It also has Career Professional Training as obligatory course for all students as well as the sign language and French.  These were made known when 49 students who gained admission into the College were matriculated into the school Campus at Kansoe in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region on Saturday. 

Addressing the Students, the Chairman of the University Council, Mr Mensah Seneadza, said the College was aimed at complementing government’s   efforts at addressing the unemployment situation among graduates in the country.

He said 66,500 graduates are churned out of the country’s Universities every year by the 10 Public Universities and 72 private ones and Polytechnics making it difficult for the few government sectors to employ such huge numbers.

He explained that in its bid to help address that anomaly, the Regentropfen College of Applied Sciences and its German partner, Stiftung Regentropfen had designed pragmatic curriculum and training programmes aimed at building and developing the students of the institution not to become mere graduates, but change agents, community transformers, applied inventors and national leaders to solve community and national level challenges.

The President and the Founder of the College, Fr. Dr Moses Awinongya said the College would focus on promoting the talents of students and instill in them the need to create jobs for themselves and to employ others.

He challenged them to become an Association of Innovators and Creative Entrepreneurs instead of Association of Unemployed Graduates as it is in Ghana now. He told the students that there were a lot of opportunities in the Region and the country that they could explore and urged them to condition their minds to see those opportunities and to exploit them instead of relying solely on government to provide them with jobs after their completion.

The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Rockson Ayine Bukari, lauded the efforts of the Founder for establishing the College with the support from his German partner, Stiftung Regentropfen and also providing scholarships to 30 per cent of brilliant but needed students who had gained admission into the school.

The Regional Minister who pledged the Regional Coordinating Council’s support to the College, admonished the students to take advantage of the unique opportunities provided by the Collage particularly the good infrastructure, the serene atmosphere and good lecturers to study and excel.

The Pro-Vice Chancellor of the UDS, Professor Seidu Al-hassan, also advised the students to be self- disciplined and to take their studies seriously.