The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Mr Vincent Senam Kuagbenu, has appealed to students to accept to work in deprived communities.
He said they should be ready to serve in areas where their services are most needed and avoid excuses just to run away from such places.
He was addressing a day's pre-service orientation for final year students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.
It was aimed at helping them to have better understanding of what the scheme was all about as they got ready to join it.
Mr Kuagbenu told them that apart from offending the country's laws, dodging national service could also wreck their chances of securing jobs abroad.
All 215 Ghanaians who sought jobs in the United Kingdom this year had to produce their NSS Certificates, he said.
Kwesi Quainoo, the Ashanti Regional Director of the NSS, said postings are made based on requests made by organizations and institutions.
Mr Quainoo urged them to be patriotic and contribute their quota towards national development.