Academics

Nine Schools. Twelve programmes open. Nothing overclaimed.

44 Departments and 81 planned programmes sit behind this structure. Only the 12 in the first accreditation wave are open, the rest are published as future intakes.

The Forward Core

Five compulsory cross-cutting requirements in every single programme.

12 months paid co-op

Every undergraduate completes a year of paid, assessed work before graduating.

What we will not teach

The programme categories Forward refuses to offer, and why.

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School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

Machine intelligence, software systems and data infrastructure built by people who understand the African deployment context, not just the benchmark.

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Open · BSc (Hons)

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Build, evaluate and deploy machine learning systems into environments with real constraints, patchy data, thin bandwidth, and consequences.

Employment thesis Open · BSc (Hons)

Software and Systems Engineering

Production engineering discipline: systems that stay up, teams that ship, and code that someone else can maintain in three years.

Employment thesis Open · BSc (Hons)

Data Science and Decision Systems

Turning messy institutional data into decisions that hold up, in banks, ministries, hospitals and operators.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BSc Cybersecurity and Digital TrustBSc Computing Infrastructure and Cloud SystemsMSc Applied Machine LearningMSc Human-Centred AI Systems

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School of Intelligent Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing

Engineers who can specify, build, automate and maintain productive capacity, the discipline a manufacturing economy is actually short of.

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Open · BEng (Hons)

Mechatronics and Intelligent Manufacturing

Design, automate and maintain productive machinery, the capability gap standing between the continent and industrial capacity.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BEng Industrial and Systems EngineeringBEng Electrical and Control EngineeringBSc Materials and Product EngineeringMEng Advanced Manufacturing Systems

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School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems

The build-out of African energy and the management of climate risk are the two largest capital flows of the coming century. This School is built for both.

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Open · BEng (Hons)

Renewable Energy Systems Engineering

Specify, build and operate the generation and storage assets being installed across the continent this decade.

Employment thesis Open · BSc (Hons)

Climate Risk and Earth Observation

Satellite data, climate modelling and risk quantification for the institutions that have to price and plan around a changing climate.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BEng Grid and Storage SystemsBSc Water and Environmental SystemsBSc Critical Minerals and Responsible ExtractionMSc Climate Adaptation Finance

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School of Health, Life Sciences and Bioengineering

Health capability built around devices, diagnostics, data and delivery systems, not only around clinical training that already exists elsewhere.

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Open · BEng (Hons)

Bioengineering and Medical Devices

Design, test, maintain and regulate the devices African health systems depend on, and increasingly need to build locally.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BSc Health Data and Clinical InformaticsBSc Biomedical and Molecular SciencesMPH Public Health SystemsMSc Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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School of Agriculture, Food Systems and Agricultural Technology

Agriculture treated as an engineering and data discipline: yield, storage, logistics, processing and the economics that hold them together.

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Open · BSc (Hons)

Agricultural Technology and Food Systems

Sensors, mechanisation, storage and logistics applied to the yield and post-harvest losses that decide whether farming pays.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BSc Food Science and Processing EngineeringBSc Agribusiness and Value Chain ManagementBSc Livestock and Aquaculture SystemsMSc Precision Agriculture

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School of Digital Business, Finance and Enterprise

Enterprise built for digital distribution and African capital markets, operators and founders, not generic management graduates.

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Open · BSc (Hons)

Digital Business and Financial Technology

Payments, credit, and digital distribution built by people who can read both a ledger and a system diagram.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BSc Operations, Trade and LogisticsBSc Accounting and Capital MarketsBSc Growth and Marketing SystemsMSc Venture Building

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School of Governance, Law and Global Affairs

Law and public administration for states negotiating technology, capital and climate, with technical literacy built in, not bolted on.

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Open · BA (Hons)

Governance, Law and Technology Policy

Policy and legal practice for states negotiating AI, data, energy and critical minerals, with the technical literacy to hold their own.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

LLB Law and RegulationBA Global Affairs and TradeMPA Public AdministrationMSc Integrity and Institutional Systems

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School of Creative Technologies and Immersive Media

Production capability for a continent whose cultural output is scaling faster than its studio infrastructure.

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Open · BA (Hons)

Immersive Media and Creative Technologies

Real-time, spatial and generative production for studios, brands and cultural institutions scaling African output globally.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BA Film and Screen ProductionBSc Sound and Music TechnologyBA Design and Visual SystemsBSc Games and Real-Time Media

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School of Education Futures and Human Capability

The discipline of building human capability at national scale, learning design, assessment, and the systems that deliver them.

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Open · BEd (Hons)

Learning Design and Human Capability

Designing learning and assessment that demonstrably transfers, for schools, ministries, employers and training providers.

Employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

BSc Education TechnologyBSc Skills and Workforce SystemsBA Psychology and Human DevelopmentMEd Education Leadership