The Music Department at the University of Ghana has various facilities to aid in the education and creative pursuits of its students. Students have unlimited access to:

• A well-equipped, airconditioned Piano Lab with sixteen Kawai digital pianos utilized for individual practice and group instruction. There are other (acoustic) upright and grand pianos at the department available for use by students receiving piano instruction.
• Four major libraries pertinent to musical study, including the Music Department’s own library with a specialized collection on musical topics from across time and around the world, as well as copies of Music theses and dissertations from prior years, the School of Performing Arts Library and the Institute of African Studies library both located in close proximity, and the University’s main Balme library with a 24-hour reading room and a vast collection of literature.
• A broad collection of Western musical instruments for use in individual instruction or ensembles, including saxophones, trumpets, trombones, violins, violas, cellos, flutes, and clarinets, to name a few, housed in a climate-controlled room.
• A room dedicated to African musical instruments with a large collection of gyil xylophones, seprewa harp-lutes, and drums.
• A well-lit, air-conditioned music studio accessible to all music students interested in music recording, production, mixing, and mastering. The studio is equipped with instruments, including keyboards and guitars (acoustic and electric), as well as studio monitors, audio interfaces, headphones/headphone distribution amps, and a microphone collection (including dynamic and condenser mics). All major DAW software is available on the studio’s Macintosh computer, including Ableton, Logic Pro X, Studio One, Fl Studio, Reaper, and Pro Tools First, alongside a large collection of hundreds of software plug-ins (virtual instruments, compressors, EQs, modulation effects, reverbs and delays, etc.) from most major manufacturers.
• The Nketia Archives (at the adjacent Institute of African Studies complex) – a voluminous archive of over a century’s worth of audio recordings and films/videos, as well as journals and text-based artifacts on African musical and dance traditions from around the continent. This formidable collection attracts scholars from all over the world and has been utilized and cited in several ground-breaking research publications. Students are able to search a large database of volumes contained within the archives and to listen to recordings at workstations in a comfortable air-conditioned environment or view videos privately or in groups in a larger room dedicated to this purpose.
• Several rehearsal and performance spaces, including pavilions at the drum village on the department’s premises, the forecourt of the department where open-air concerts are often staged, and the ETS Drama Studio for larger audiences equipped with a dedicated stage, lighting, and modern audio equipment.
• Classrooms: Classes for undergraduates are typically held in the nearby JQB Building while graduate classes typically take place in smaller settings at the Music Department or in spaces in the nearby Institute of African Studies building.
• Seminar room: Music Department colloquia and graduate seminars typically take place in the spacious air-conditioned Seminar Room with installed audio-visual projection and sound amplification equipment.
• Robust facilities at ‘sister’ departments at the School of Performing Arts: Dance and Drama

A major attraction to many students is also the beautiful University of Ghana campus in which the Music Department is housed – home to towering woodland savannah and tropical trees, numerous bird and plant species, distinctive anthills – some as tall as small trees – and beautifully designed buildings and student residences that gradually rise up to the Great Hall on Legon Hill. The Times Higher Education Supplement named the University of Ghana as one of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Universities in Africa (ranking it #5). It states of the University of Ghana: “Its architecture is a real strong point – the beaming white walls and red roofs pair well with the plants, trees and flowers growing on campus. The Balme Library is the nucleus of the campus and is regarded as one of the best libraries in West Africa, complete with a freshwater pond.”