The Department of Construction Technology & Management runs a broad spectrum of programmes tailored to the construction industry. The Programmes offered in the Department include two undergraduate programmes and five graduate programmes. The undergraduate programmes are the BSc. Quantity Surveying and Construction Economics and BSc. Construction Technology and Management. The graduate programmes are MSc./MPhil/PhD Construction Management, MSc./MPhil/PhD Procurement Management, MSc./MPhil/PhD Project Management, and MPhil/PhD Building Technology.
The programmes were designed to enable its products to work in building and civil contracting organisations, research institutions and structural engineering organisations. To enable the programme to cope with the requirements of the aforementioned institutions, it became necessary to increasingly load it with courses of relevance to each of the institutions. This resulted in the overburdening of students with courses that sometimes became irrelevant in their professional careers.
The construction industry is changing and has also become very specialised both in terms of the technology, management techniques and materials used now vis a vis those of the late 1960s and early 1970s, culminating in the need to train students in the new and emerging construction technologies and management techniques of construction resources. This called for the need to mount the new programme. The Department of Construction Technology and Management has also been under considerable pressure from the Ghana Institute of Construction to mount a programme that would directly cater for its needs in construction technology and management.