Education as they say is a prelude to the every nation’s development. It is also the base to the society and major component for nation building, others say Education is the nerve centre for our contemporary world.
So when we talk about education, not only quantitative but qualitative, Christian Service University is all over the place.
Christian Service University is a renowned Christian university in Kumasi Ghana with the main motive is to raise graduates in a Christian approach.
The Christian Service University has been ranked the leading institution worldwide in the provision of quality education, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Sustainable Development Goal 4 is about ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, as established by the United Nations in September 2015 among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The university is known for its educational standards and so attracts large numbers of international students.
Christian Service University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning and research and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, has graduated over 6,500 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Brief History of CSU
The University began as a merger of two visions in January 1974, a group of Ghanaian Christians had a vision of an interdenominational, evangelical institution of high academic standard, which would train men and women for all types of Christian Ministry.
The second group comprised expatriate missionaries who had a vision of an institution to train workers from the well-established churches in southern Ghana for a thrust into northern Ghana and neighboring countries where the church was relatively very small. Evangelical Christianity in Ghana in the late 1960’s and 1970’s was characterized, among other things, by intimate interaction and collaboration and blurring of denominational, mission and group distinctions.
The Worldwide Evangelization for Christ (WEC), which was one of the missionary groups in the second group of missionaries, had acquired property in Kumasi on which they had built four houses and a radio studio with plans to construct a large building to serve as the beginning of a training college. Soon the two visions merged.
In October 1974, the first residential classes started with four students and the College grew from strength to strength and has now become an Evangelical Christian University College.
The New Chapter
Until May 16 2024 CSU was affiliated to university of Ghana and university of Cape Coast New chapter.
The hysteria of Charter which didn’t happen cataclysmically or fortuitously marks a new chapter for CSU, recognizing its renowned commitment to academic excellence and contributions to holistic higher education in Ghana.
Established 50 years ago, CSU has consistently upheld its mission to provide quality education grounded on Christian values. Presidential Charter positioned CSU “as the 10th private university in Ghana and solidifies its status as the leading academic institution in the region”.
Programmes Of Study
CSU has unique programmes of study with present time facilities that provide students with more imperative skills for their academic careers.
These programmes are Nursing and midwifery
Computer Science
*Information Technology *
*Cyber Security *
Theology with Administration
Accounting and Finance
Communication Studies
These programmes are virtuoso taught by dexterity lecturers who are not pliant and make sure salivating students understand them very carefully, making them outstanding in their field of work when done with School.
The programmes and activities of the College, involved both academic and practical programmes. All were planned to the end that students were not simply instructed in various subjects but are trained to follow the Lord Jesus Christ in all things. The saying then was: “In CSC, we train the mind, the heart and the hands.
Past Students
CSU has train significant number of people in Kumasi and Ghana as a whole to mention a few are
Some Distinguished Alumni
The Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Kwaku
Asante
* Third Presiding-Bishop, Conference of
Methodist Church Ghana;
* Immediate-Past Chairman, Ghana
National Peace Council; and
* Member of the Seventh Advisory
Group of the UN Peace building Fund
The Rt. Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Y eboah Mante
* Immediate-Past President, Trinity
Theological Seminary, Legon-Accra;
* 18th Moderator, General Assembly of
Presbyterian Church of Ghana
The Rt. Rev. Nuh Ben Abubekr
* Bishop, Kumasi Diocese, Methodist
Church Ghana
Rev. Prof. Yaw Adu-Gyam
* Immediate-Past President, Ghana
Baptist University College
* Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Head,
Department of Theology, CSU
* Founder-Director, Research Centre for
Public Theology, CSU.
Ms. Cassandra Twum Ampofo
* Head of the Public Relations Unit of the
Ghana Education Service (GES)
* Adjudged the 2020 National
Communications Personality
of the Year
Mr. Erastus Asare Donkor
* Joy News Reporter
* Ghana Journalist Association (GJA)
Journalist of the Year 2023.
Hon. Kennedy Kwabena Kankam
* Immediate-Past Member of Parliament
(MP), Nhyiaeso Constituency, Kumasi.
* Current Municipal Chief Executive
(MCE), Asokore-Mampong
Municipality, Kumasi.
Prof. Joseph Kwasi Agyemang
* Assistant Professor in Accounting and
Finance, University of Eswatini
(formerly Swaziland).
* Acclaimed as the best person in the
world to obtain three unique PhDs in
Accounting – Public Sector
* Accounting, Accounting Information,
and Auditing.
Mr. William Addo
* Business Executive & Owner, Ultimate
Fashions – Kumasi & Accra.
* Philanthropist
* Benefactor of CSU
Mr. Kofi Gyimah
* Business Executive & Owner, Kofi
Gyima Enterprises – Kumasi,
Accra & Sunyani.
* Benefactor of CSU
Campus Life
Unlike other campuses in the Ghana where there ae constant obstreperous, Life on campus of CSU is serene and fun and engaging from the programs organized by the school ebullient SRC department to numerous clubs on campus which is very gregarious.
It helps students to connect well with themselves and learn new things. CSU organize a usual weekly ritual of prayer and fasting which helps in building the spiritual life of students.
The average number of students in the classes of CSU helps students to fully participate in class and also receive the necessary support from lecturers. It’s rare to spot a modicum of indiscipline at the environment
As the school journey on, it continues to train excellent graduates with God-fearing attitude to face the world making it a prestigious place for comprehensive education.
Conclusion
Succinctly, it is not platitude to say Christian Service University is ‘superciliously’ place of academic enrichment and a stepping stone for a godly lifestyle to encounter God to stymie precipitous trajectory of the students and also the in the field of studies that hinges on Teaching, Research, and Service to humanity with integrity.
The university’s mission and vision in producing not just educated individuals but wise and skilled professionals for the betterment of the region and beyond. This means great leaders are produced for the building of the country Ghana.
By Doreen Tandoh
Student of Christian Service University
Email: doreentandoh1@gmail.com
