Eleven Schools. A hundred and forty-three degrees. Nothing overclaimed.

Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence and big data is the fastest growing skill category in the world, two thirds of employers intend to hire specifically for it, and the measured wage premium for demonstrable AI capability now exceeds sixty per cent of ...

Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Analytics

Every institution in Uganda now holds more data than it can interpret, and almost none of them can convert it into a decision. The gap is not modelling talent; it is the far scarcer ability to move from a messy administrative dataset to a d...

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering with Intelligent Systems

The largest addressable domestic technology market in Uganda is software, and the largest single complaint from employers is that graduates can pass an algorithms examination but have never shipped anything to a user, never operated a syste...

Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

Uganda is digitising public services, payments and identity faster than it is producing people qualified to defend them, and the shortage is acute at exactly the level — hands on defensive operations — where the region's degree programmes a...

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Advanced and Quantum Computing

Every serious technology economy needs a small number of people who understand computation deeply enough to build the layer everyone else stands on: compilers, runtimes, schedulers, numerical kernels, cryptographic primitives and, increasin...

Master of Science in Machine Learning and Foundation Models

A research intensive degree for the small number of people who will build, adapt and evaluate frontier-class models on and for the continent. It exists because Africa is acquiring accelerated computing faster than it is acquiring the people...

Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence

A practitioner conversion degree for working professionals — clinicians, bankers, engineers, agronomists, civil servants, teachers, lawyers — who need to build and govern intelligent systems in their own sector rather than become research s...

Master of Science in Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture

Every organisation that wants intelligent systems discovers first that it cannot get to its own data. Data engineering is the least glamorous and most binding constraint on African AI adoption, and it is almost entirely untaught at postgrad...

Master of Science in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics

Uganda's critical financial, identity and public service infrastructure is now digital, and the national capacity to investigate, attribute and defend against attacks on it is thin. This programme builds senior defenders, investigators and ...

Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence

Africa cannot import its way to research capacity. This doctorate is designed to produce researchers who will stay, supervise, and build institutions, and it therefore carries two requirements unusual in the region: every candidate must pub...

Master of Science in Human-Centred AI Systems

Most intelligent systems fail not because the model was wrong but because the system ignored the people who had to use it, trust it or live with its decisions. Human centred design, human computer interaction, and the study of how people and intelligent systems actually work together have become ...

Bachelor of Science in Computing Infrastructure and Cloud Systems

Every organisation that wants intelligent systems, digital services or reliable operations discovers the same binding constraint: it cannot build or run the infrastructure underneath them. Cloud architecture, systems engineering, networks and site reliability are the least glamorous and most ...

Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Operations and Infrastructure Defence

Uganda is digitising public services, payments and identity faster than it is producing people who can defend the infrastructure underneath them, and the shortage is most acute not in policy but in hands on defensive operations: the engineers who harden a network, run a security operations centre, ...

Master of Science in Applied Machine Learning

There is a large and growing population of technically capable professionals in the region who can program and reason quantitatively but who cannot yet build, evaluate and deploy machine learning systems to a professional standard. They do not need a research degree; they need a rigorous, build ...

Coming in future intakes

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

School 2 · 10 departments · 16 degrees

School of Intelligent Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing

Where intelligence meets the physical world

Open · BEng (Hons)

Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics and Embodied Intelligence

Embodied intelligence has just been created as a formal undergraduate discipline in the world's largest university system, with institutions fast tracked to deliver it, and no African university offers a dedicated undergraduate degree in it...

Bachelor of Engineering in Semiconductor and Microelectronic Engineering

Integrated circuits are the physical substrate of every intelligent system, and the discipline has been identified as a strategic priority in every serious industrial policy in the world. Africa currently designs almost none of them. Fabric...

Bachelor of Engineering in Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics

Uganda's industrial parks are filling with plant that nobody local can commission, optimise or repair, and the resulting dependence on imported technicians is a recurring hidden cost of industrialisation. This programme builds the engineer ...

Bachelor of Engineering in Autonomous Systems and Low Altitude Aviation

The low altitude economy — drone logistics, aerial survey, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection, medical delivery and eventually urban air mobility — is one of the fastest forming new industrial sectors in the world, and it is o...

Bachelor of Engineering in Smart Infrastructure and Construction Technology

Uganda will build more infrastructure in the next twenty-five years than in its entire history, and construction remains among the largest absolute job creators in the world. The failure mode is not a shortage of civil engineers but a short...

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Embedded Systems Engineering

Every other programme in this School and in the School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems depends on people who can design power electronics, control systems and embedded devices that survive African grid conditions. This is the Universit...

Employment thesis Open · MEng

Master of Science in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

A research and translation degree producing the small cadre able to lead robotics programmes in African industry and to found deep technology ventures. It is deliberately weighted towards deployable systems rather than simulation results, a...

Master of Engineering in Integrated Circuit Design

The global shortage of chip design and verification engineers is structural, the work is routinely performed remotely, and the barrier to African participation is training rather than capital. This programme converts engineering and computi...

Master of Science in Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Industrial transformation in Uganda is constrained less by machinery than by the absence of engineers who can design, digitalise and lead a production system. This programme is built for working manufacturing professionals and for graduates...

Doctor of Philosophy in Intelligent Engineering

Doctoral research across robotics, microelectronics, manufacturing, autonomous systems and smart infrastructure, anchored in African engineering problems and required to terminate in something that works outside a laboratory. Candidates pub...

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Control Engineering

Every intelligent system, every factory, every grid and every vehicle in the modern economy depends on people who can design power electronics, control systems and the electrical infrastructure that survives African conditions. Electrical and control engineering is the load bearing discipline ...

Employment thesis Open · MEng

Bachelor of Science in Materials and Product Engineering

Africa consumes physical products designed and made elsewhere from materials it often exports raw, and the constraint on changing that is the near absence of engineers who understand both materials and the engineering of products made from them. Materials and product engineering is where value ...

Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Industrial transformation in Uganda is constrained less by machinery than by the absence of engineers who can design, digitalise and lead a production system. This professional engineering masters is the practice weighted counterpart to the School's research MSc: it is built for working ...

Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial and Systems Engineering

Industrial and Systems Engineering is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Bachelor of Engineering in Semiconductor Engineering and Chip Design

Semiconductor Engineering and Chip Design is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Semiconductor and Microelectronics Engineering department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Coming in future intakes

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

School 3 · 6 departments · 14 degrees

School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems

Powering and protecting the continent

Open · BEng (Hons)

Bachelor of Engineering in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Systems

Renewable energy and environmental engineering roles appear on every credible list of the world's fastest growing occupations, and Uganda's electrification challenge is simultaneously a generation problem, a grid problem and a business mode...

Bachelor of Science in Climate Intelligence and Carbon Management

Uganda buys almost all of its climate and carbon expertise from outside the country, and every carbon credit issued on African land is measured, verified and priced by someone else. That is a transfer of value that a single degree programme...

Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Intelligence and Earth Observation

Satellite imagery has become abundant and nearly free while the ability to turn it into decisions has remained scarce and expensive. Every ministry, insurer, agricultural firm, mining company and humanitarian agency in the region needs answ...

Bachelor of Engineering in Mining, Critical Minerals and Metallurgy

Uganda holds gold, copper, cobalt, rare earths, lithium bearing pegmatites, iron and phosphates, and exports almost all of it in the least valuable form possible. The constraint on value addition is metallurgical and processing expertise, n...

Bachelor of Engineering in Water and Environmental Engineering

Water and sanitation infrastructure is among the largest sustained public investment categories in Uganda, and the failure rate of installed rural water systems remains extraordinary — not because the engineering was wrong, but because nobo...

Bachelor of Science in Petroleum and Energy Transition Systems

Uganda is entering commercial oil production at precisely the moment the global energy system begins to turn away from it. Pretending either fact away would be a disservice to students. This programme trains people who can operate the petro...

Master of Science in Energy Transition and Sustainable Power

The people who will decide how Uganda and the region generate, price and regulate electricity over the next thirty years are mostly already in post and mostly trained in a single discipline. This programme is built for them: systems level e...

Master of Science in Climate Data Science

Climate models produced for the world are too coarse to tell a Ugandan district when to plant, a bank whether to lend, or an insurer what to charge. Closing that resolution gap requires machine learning applied to climate, agricultural and ...

Master of Science in Geospatial Analytics

An advanced degree for professionals who need to build, not merely operate, geospatial decision systems: national land systems, agricultural monitoring platforms, urban growth models and humanitarian information services. It is deliberately...

Doctor of Philosophy in Energy and Climate Systems

Doctoral research on the African energy and climate transition: grid intelligence, renewable integration, carbon measurement, mineral value addition, water systems and adaptation. Every thesis carries a translation statement and a publicati...

Bachelor of Science in Critical Minerals and Responsible Extraction

Uganda holds gold, copper, cobalt, rare earths, lithium bearing pegmatites, iron and phosphates, and exports almost all of it in the least valuable and least responsible form possible. The constraint on changing that is expertise in the whole chain from resource to processed material, conducted ...

Bachelor of Science in Water and Environmental Systems

Water and sanitation infrastructure is among the largest sustained public investments in Uganda, and the failure rate of installed rural water systems remains extraordinary, not because the engineering was wrong but because nobody engineered the whole system, including its operation, monitoring and ...

Master of Science in Climate Adaptation Finance

Africa needs the majority of global adaptation finance and receives a fraction of it, and one binding constraint is the near absence of professionals who can structure, appraise, access and account for adaptation finance to the standard that international funds and investors require. Climate ...

Bachelor of Engineering in Grid and Storage Systems

Grid and Storage Systems is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Grid and Energy Storage Engineering department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Coming in future intakes

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

School 4 · 8 departments · 15 degrees

School of Health, Life Sciences and Bioengineering

Intelligence applied to human life

Bachelor of Science in Digital Health and Health Informatics

Uganda's health system now runs on district health information systems, electronic medical records, laboratory and logistics systems and a growing layer of clinical algorithms, and it is staffed at the technical level almost entirely by peo...

Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Devices

African hospitals are full of donated equipment that no longer works, and the reason is almost never the technology. It is the absence of biomedical engineers who can install, calibrate, repair and eventually design equipment for local cond...

Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing

Biomanufacturing has been named a strategic discipline in every major industrial catalogue revision of the past three years, and the pandemic demonstrated with brutal clarity what it costs a continent to manufacture almost none of its own b...

Bachelor of Science in Precision Public Health and Epidemiology

East Africa is the world's most consequential theatre for outbreak detection and response, and its public health workforce is overwhelmingly trained at postgraduate level, leaving districts staffed by people improvising with spreadsheets. T...

Employment thesis Open · BPharm (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Clinical Informatics

Nursing remains among the largest absolute job creators in the world and one of the few professions with guaranteed international demand. Uganda trains competent nurses; what it does not yet train is nurses who can lead the digital transfor...

Bachelor of Pharmacy with Computational Drug Discovery

Uganda imports the overwhelming majority of its medicines and manufactures a narrow band of generics, while substandard and falsified products remain a persistent public health threat. The pharmacist of the next twenty years must therefore ...

Employment thesis Open · MPH

Master of Science in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence

Clinical machine learning is being deployed across African health systems faster than it is being validated, and models trained on distant populations are being applied to Ugandan patients with almost no local evidence. This programme produ...

Master of Public Health in Digital Epidemiology

A Master of Public Health built for a surveillance environment that is now digital, genomic and real time. It trains population health leaders who can build and run modern surveillance and modelling capability rather than commission it, and...

Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Genomic Medicine

African genomes are the most diverse on earth and the least represented in reference databases, which means that precision medicine developed elsewhere routinely misclassifies African patients. Closing that gap requires African bioinformati...

Doctor of Philosophy in Health Data Science

Doctoral research at the intersection of medicine, biology and computation, anchored in African clinical and population data. The programme requires peer reviewed publication before submission, a translation statement, and evidence that the...

Employment thesis Open · MPH

Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Uganda imports the overwhelming majority of its medicines and manufactures a narrow band of generics, and the constraint on changing that is expertise: too few professionals who can design, run and assure pharmaceutical manufacturing to the standard that regulators and export markets require. ...

Master of Public Health in Public Health Systems

Uganda's public health workforce is overwhelmingly trained to deliver programmes rather than to design, finance and lead the systems those programmes run inside, and the result is districts staffed by capable people improvising with spreadsheets. Public health systems is the discipline of making a ...

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

The pandemic showed what it costs a continent to manufacture almost none of its own biological products and to depend on distant laboratories for diagnosis and research. Biomedical and molecular science is the foundation beneath diagnostics, biomanufacturing, drug development and modern clinical ...

Bachelor of Science in Health Data and Clinical Informatics

Health Data and Clinical Informatics is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Health Data and Clinical Informatics department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Global Nursing Practice)

Nursing (Global Nursing Practice) is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Nursing and Clinical Practice department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Coming in future intakes

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

School 5 · 6 departments · 12 degrees

School of Agriculture, Food Systems and Agricultural Technology

The largest employer, reinvented

Bachelor of Science in Precision Agriculture and Agricultural Robotics

Agricultural robotics has just been named a distinct undergraduate discipline in the world's largest higher education system, and the reason is arithmetic rather than fashion: farm labour is becoming scarcer and more expensive everywhere, i...

Bachelor of Science in Food Science, Safety and Value Addition

Uganda exports raw commodities and imports processed food made from them. The gap between those two sentences is the country's single largest unclaimed industrial opportunity, and it is not closed by policy alone: it is closed by food techn...

Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Analytics and Digital Trade

The binding constraint on African agriculture is increasingly not production but the market: price discovery, aggregation, quality grading, finance, logistics and the paperwork of cross border trade. The African Continental Free Trade Area ...

Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and Intelligent Aquaculture

Demand for animal protein in East Africa is rising faster than production, and the deficit is being met by imports. Meanwhile fish farming, which the region has the water and climate to dominate, remains largely artisanal. This programme co...

Bachelor of Science in Crop Science with Plant Genomics

Climate change is outrunning the pace of conventional breeding, and the crops that matter most to African food security — banana, cassava, millet, sorghum, beans — receive a fraction of the global breeding investment given to temperate cere...

Master of Science in Agrifood Systems Intelligence

Agricultural transformation programmes across the continent are commissioned, funded and evaluated by people who cannot interrogate the data underneath them. This programme produces the senior analyst who can model a value chain end to end,...

Master of Science in Food Technology and Industrial Processing

Scaling a food product from a pilot batch to an industrial line, and keeping it compliant enough to export, is where most African food manufacturing ambition fails. This programme is built for that specific failure: process scale up, plant ...

Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Innovation

Doctoral research in agricultural technology, crop and animal improvement, food systems and agricultural data science, anchored in African production realities. The programme requires peer reviewed publication before submission and a transl...

Master of Science in Precision Agriculture

Farming is becoming a data and technology discipline, with sensing, robotics, remote sensing and machine learning turning agriculture into something that can be measured and optimised field by field. The region is acquiring the technology faster than the people who can make it pay in African ...

Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness and Value Chain Management

Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Processing Engineering

Uganda exports raw commodities and imports processed food made from them, and the gap between those two facts is the country's single largest unclaimed industrial opportunity. Closing it requires food scientists and processing engineers who can turn a crop into a safe, compliant, shelf stable ...

Bachelor of Science in Livestock and Aquaculture Systems

Livestock and Aquaculture Systems is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Livestock and Aquaculture Systems department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Coming in future intakes

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

School 6 · 7 departments · 15 degrees

School of Digital Business, Finance and Enterprise

Business rebuilt around intelligence

Bachelor of Science in Business Artificial Intelligence

Employers report that the scarcest artificial intelligence skill is not model building but translation: the person who can look at a business process, judge where an intelligent system would actually pay, specify it, get it adopted and prov...

Bachelor of Science in Digital Finance and Financial Technology

East Africa built the world's most consequential mobile money systems and then trained almost nobody to run the next generation of them. Payments, digital lending, embedded finance and digital assets now form one of the region's largest emp...

Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Intelligence and Digital Trade

Uganda is landlocked, and every shilling of its competitiveness is decided somewhere in a corridor, a warehouse or a customs post. The African Continental Free Trade Area makes the next decade decisive, yet supply chain is still taught here...

Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship and Venture Building

Entrepreneurship is taught almost everywhere as a subject and almost nowhere as an apprenticeship, which is why entrepreneurship graduates so rarely start anything. This programme inverts that. Students operate inside the Forward Venture St...

Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Algorithmic Assurance

Routine bookkeeping is automating rapidly, and the accounting graduate who can only do it is in trouble. What is not automating is judgement, assurance and the audit of the automated systems themselves — an entirely new professional territo...

Employment thesis Open · MBA

Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science and Risk Analytics

Insurance penetration in Uganda remains among the lowest in the world, and one binding constraint is the near absence of qualified actuaries to price, reserve and regulate products for African risk profiles. The profession is also being res...

Master of Business Administration in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Strategy

Most executive education about artificial intelligence teaches leaders to talk about it. This degree teaches them to decide about it: which processes to automate, what to build against what to buy, how to price the risk, how to restructure ...

Master of Science in Financial Technology and Digital Assets

Financial infrastructure in Africa is being rebuilt in this decade — instant payment systems, interoperable mobile money, central bank digital currency pilots and tokenised assets — and the institutions doing it are competing for a very sma...

Employment thesis Open · Doctorate

Master of Science in Marketing Intelligence and Growth Systems

Marketing has become an engineering and measurement discipline, and the gap between marketers who can run an attribution model and those who cannot is now the gap between a career and a dead end. This intensive programme rebuilds marketing ...

Doctor of Business Administration

An applied doctorate for senior executives and institutional leaders who need to conduct rigorous research on a problem inside their own sector rather than pursue an academic career. The distinguishing requirement is that the research must ...

Master of Science in Venture Building

Entrepreneurship is taught almost everywhere as a subject and almost nowhere as an apprenticeship, which is why so few graduates start anything that lasts. This masters inverts that. It is a structured venture building programme for technically capable people who intend to found or lead a company, ...

Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Capital Markets

Routine bookkeeping is automating rapidly, and the accounting graduate who can only do it is in trouble, while the region's capital markets remain thin partly for want of people who can analyse, value and assure the instruments that deepen them. This programme is built on the other side of ...

Bachelor of Science in Growth and Marketing Systems

Bachelor of Science in Operations, Trade and Logistics

Bachelor of Science in Actuarial and Risk Data Science

Actuarial and Risk Data Science is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 132 competency units over 3 years (6 semesters), sited in the Actuarial and Risk Data Science department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Coming in future intakes

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

School 7 · 6 departments · 13 degrees

School of Governance, Law and Global Affairs

The rules that intelligent societies run on

Open · LLB (Hons)

Bachelor of Laws with Technology and Data Law

Uganda produces a large number of law graduates and a very small number who can advise competently on a data breach, a software licensing dispute, a platform liability question or an algorithmic discrimination claim. Those questions are arr...

Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence Policy and Digital Governance

Africa now has a continental artificial intelligence strategy, several national policies and a growing set of regulators with statutory responsibility for digital systems, and almost no trained cadre to staff them. The people currently writ...

Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Science and Human Systems

Most technology, policy and development programmes fail not because the technical solution was wrong but because human behaviour was assumed rather than studied. Behavioural science has become a standard function in governments, banks, heal...

Bachelor of Arts in Global Affairs and Digital Diplomacy

Africa negotiates continuously — on trade, on climate finance, on data flows, on critical minerals, on technology standards — and it does so with delegations that are frequently outnumbered and out resourced. The gap is not commitment but p...

Employment thesis Open · LLM

Bachelor of Science in Digital Government and Public Service Innovation

This programme replaces secretarial studies, office administration, records management and generic public administration, which together account for a substantial share of regional enrolment and which train people to perform exactly the tas...

Master of Laws in Technology, Data and Artificial Intelligence Law

Practising lawyers and regulators across the region are now advising on questions their legal education never anticipated. This intensive postgraduate specialisation gives them the doctrinal depth and the technical literacy to do it properl...

Employment thesis Open · MA

Master of Arts in Global Digital Policy and Diplomacy

Technology is now a primary axis of international negotiation, and African delegations are routinely asked to take positions on data flows, standards, export controls and artificial intelligence norms with little institutional preparation. ...

Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Governance, Safety and Assurance

Assurance is the discipline that decides whether a society can trust systems it cannot fully inspect, and it is presently practised by a few hundred people worldwide. Africa needs its own assurance capability rather than importing conclusio...

Doctor of Philosophy in Technology, Policy and Society

Doctoral research on the governance of technology in African contexts, spanning law, policy, behavioural science and assurance. The programme exists partly to correct a structural imbalance: the scholarship that shapes global technology gov...

Employment thesis Open · MPA

Master of Science in Integrity and Institutional Systems

Corruption and institutional failure are usually treated as moral or political problems, and rarely as what they also are: system design problems, where the flows of money, information and authority create or close the opportunity for capture. There is almost no training in the region that combines ...

Master of Public Administration

Public institutions in Uganda are staffed by capable people asked to run modern services with tools and training designed for a different era, and the result is a persistent gap between policy intent and delivery. This Master of Public Administration is a taught, project heavy conversion for public ...

Employment thesis Open · LLB (Hons)

Bachelor of Arts in Global Affairs and Trade

Africa is negotiating its economic future, in the Continental Free Trade Area, in climate and resource diplomacy and in a contested global order, with too few professionals trained to represent it competently at the table. Global affairs and trade is a practical discipline of analysis, negotiation ...

Bachelor of Laws (LLB (Hons))

Law is being reshaped by technology faster than any faculty in the region is teaching it: data protection, digital finance, platform regulation, artificial intelligence and cross border digital trade now generate more live legal work than most traditional fields, and almost no Ugandan law graduate ...

Coming in future intakes

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

School 8 · 6 departments · 12 degrees

School of Creative Technologies and Immersive Media

Culture as a technology industry

Bachelor of Science in Immersive Media and Extended Reality

Spatial computing has moved from novelty to industrial tool: it now trains surgeons, simulates factories, sells property, teaches mechanics and preserves heritage. The technical skills required are scarce everywhere and effectively absent i...

Bachelor of Science in Intelligent Audiovisual Production

This programme absorbs and replaces standalone film, drama, animation and general mass communication degrees. Its premise is that the audiovisual industry has become a technology industry: virtual production, generative pipelines, remote co...

Bachelor of Science in Design Intelligence and User Experience

This programme replaces standalone graphic design and fine art craft degrees, in the specific recognition that routine visual production is automating rapidly while the demand for people who can decide what should be built, for whom, and wh...

Bachelor of Science in Game Design and Simulation Engineering

Games are the largest entertainment industry on earth and the most demanding consumer of real time engineering skill, and the same engine and simulation competence sells directly into training, defence, mining, aviation, health and educatio...

Bachelor of Science in Computational Linguistics and African Language Technologies

This programme replaces standalone foreign language and translation degrees, whose market general machine translation has largely collapsed, and reconstitutes the discipline on the other side of the technology: students here build the trans...

Employment thesis Open · MA

Master of Science in Creative Artificial Intelligence and Immersive Systems

Generative and real time systems have changed creative production faster than any institution has adapted, and the people who understand both the technology and the craft are exceptionally scarce. This programme builds the technical creativ...

Master of Arts in Digital Cultural Economy

African cultural output travels globally while the value overwhelmingly accrues elsewhere, because the rights, distribution, data and negotiation expertise sits elsewhere. This programme builds the executives, policy leaders and institution...

Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Creativity

Doctoral research at the intersection of computation, culture and creative practice, including generative systems, African language and heritage technology, immersive experience and the evaluation of creative machine output. The programme a...

Bachelor of Arts in Design and Visual Systems

Every product, service and brand now competes on design, and design itself has become a technology discipline of systems, tools and data as much as of craft. The region trains graphic artists for a world that now wants product designers, design systems thinkers and designers who can work fluently ...

Bachelor of Arts in Film and Screen Production

African screen content is in unprecedented global demand, streaming platforms are commissioning from the continent, and the constraint is no longer distribution but production capacity: too few people who can make screen work to the technical and storytelling standard the global market now expects. ...

Bachelor of Science in Games and Real-Time Media

The games and real time media industry is larger than film and music combined, its technology now drives simulation, training, visualisation and the immersive web, and Africa is almost entirely absent from its production side. Games and real time media is a demanding technical discipline of ...

Bachelor of Science in Sound and Music Technology

African music drives global culture, yet most of the technical value, the production, engineering, mastering and the technology itself, is captured elsewhere for want of local expertise. Sound and music technology is a rigorous technical discipline combining acoustics, signal processing, software ...

Coming in future intakes

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

School 9 · 6 departments · 10 degrees

School of Education Futures and Human Capability

Teaching the teachers of the intelligent age

Employment thesis Open · BEd (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Learning Engineering and Educational Artificial Intelligence

Education technology is the fastest growing category of educational spending in Africa and the least evidenced. Systems are procured on demonstration rather than on learning gain, and almost nobody inside ministries, schools or companies is...

Bachelor of Education in Digital Pedagogy and STEM Teaching

Uganda's shortage of qualified science and mathematics teachers is the upstream cause of the shortage of engineers, clinicians and technologists this University exists to produce. Teacher education in the region is also frequently criticise...

Employment thesis Open · MEd

Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Human Performance Science

Uganda has one of the lowest ratios of mental health professionals to population in the world, at the same time as workplaces, schools and universities are being asked to manage psychological wellbeing with almost no trained capacity. This ...

Master of Education in Learning Design and Educational Artificial Intelligence

Serving teachers, lecturers, trainers and education leaders are being asked to redesign teaching and assessment for a world with intelligent systems, largely without support. This intensive programme gives them the learning science, design ...

Employment thesis Open · Doctorate

Master of Science in Workforce Development and Skills Systems

Every government and large employer in the region is now running skills programmes, and most of them cannot say what those programmes achieved. With thirty nine per cent of skills globally expected to change by 2030 and eighty five per cent...

Doctor of Education in Educational Transformation

An applied doctorate for education leaders and system reformers who need to conduct rigorous research on a problem inside their own institution or system rather than pursue a purely academic career. As with the Doctor of Business Administra...

Employment thesis Open · MEd

Master of Education in Education Leadership

Education institutions in the region are led overwhelmingly by people promoted for teaching excellence and never trained to lead, and the quality of an institution rarely rises above the quality of its leadership. This Master of Education in Education Leadership is a taught, project heavy ...

Bachelor of Science in Education Technology

Education across the region is being reshaped by technology faster than institutions can absorb it, and the missing profession is the one that sits between the teacher, the learner and the system: the education technologist who can design learning, build and evaluate the tools, and make technology ...

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Human Development

Mental health need in the region is vast and the trained workforce is tiny, while employers across every sector increasingly need people who understand human behaviour, development and wellbeing with rigour. Psychology is often taught here as a purely theoretical arts subject, detached from the ...

Bachelor of Science in Skills and Workforce Systems

Uganda has one of the youngest populations on earth and one of the widest gaps between what young people can do and what employers need, and closing it is a systems problem: skills analysis, training design, workforce data, and the machinery that connects learning to work. Almost nobody is trained ...

Coming in future intakes

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

School 10 · 5 departments · 12 degrees

School of Business, Invention and Venture Creation

Where an idea becomes a patent, a product and a payroll

Bachelor of Science in Invention and Product Engineering

Africa consumes physical products designed elsewhere and assembled elsewhere, and the reason is not an absence of ideas. It is the absence of people who can carry an idea across the distance between a sketch and a manufacturable specificati...

Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence Product and Platform Ventures

The cost of building software has collapsed and the cost of distributing it is near zero, which means the binding constraint on an African software venture is no longer engineering headcount but judgement: what to build, for whom, with what...

Bachelor of Science in Technology Commercialisation and Intellectual Property

African universities and research institutes produce inventions that are never protected, never licensed and never manufactured, and the loss is invisible because nobody counts it. Technology transfer is a trained profession everywhere it w...

Bachelor of Science in Startup Engineering and Enterprise Growth

Most African ventures do not fail at the idea. They fail somewhere between the tenth customer and the hundredth employee, in the unglamorous machinery of hiring, cash management, sales process, systems and governance. That machinery is a te...

Bachelor of Science in Frugal Innovation and Social Enterprise

The majority of Ugandans are not a market that existing products are designed for, and the conventional response has been charity, which does not scale, or discounted imports, which do not last. Frugal innovation is the third answer: design...

Bachelor of Science in Digital Product Management and Platform Growth

Product management is one of the highest paid and most remote accessible professions in technology, and it is almost entirely closed to African graduates because it is conventionally entered after years in another role. That gatekeeping is ...

Master of Science in Technology Entrepreneurship and Venture Building

A structured venture building programme for technically capable people who intend to found or lead a technology company, and for professionals converting into venture roles. Unlike conventional entrepreneurship masters programmes, the deliv...

Master of Science in Innovation Management and Intellectual Property Strategy

Universities, research institutes, ministries and large companies across the region are being asked to manage innovation portfolios and intellectual property estates without anyone trained to do it. This intensive programme prepares that ca...

Master of Science in Product Invention and Advanced Prototyping

The gap between a working prototype and a manufacturable product is where African hardware ambition most often ends, and closing it requires a level of engineering and manufacturing judgement that a first degree rarely supplies. This progra...

Doctor of Philosophy in Innovation, Invention and Technology Entrepreneurship

Doctoral research on how invention, commercialisation and venture creation actually work in African conditions — a body of knowledge that is currently thin, largely imported and frequently wrong about the constraints that matter here. The p...

Master of Science in Enterprise Growth and Capital

Africa is full of small enterprises that never grow and promising companies that stall for want of capital and the capability to deploy it, and the missing profession is the growth operator who can take a viable business and scale it, and the capital professional who can finance that growth. This ...

Master of Science in Invention and Product Engineering

The continent consumes inventions it does not make, and the gap is not creativity but the disciplined capability to carry an invention across the long distance from an idea to a manufacturable, protected, sellable product. Invention and product engineering unites design, engineering, intellectual ...

Coming in future intakes

MSc Enterprise Growth and CapitalMSc Invention and Product Engineering

School 11 · 7 departments · 10 degrees

School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Tourism

Africa's hospitality talent, trained to a five to seven star standard

Bachelor of Science in International Hotel and Resort Management

Tourism is Uganda's largest foreign exchange earner, East Africa has the fastest growing luxury hotel pipeline on the continent, and the Gulf, the Indian Ocean islands and the cruise industry recruit African hospitality talent at scale, yet the region trains almost nobody at degree level to the ...

Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts and Gastronomy Science

Every luxury hotel, fine dining restaurant, airline, cruise ship and food brand competes on the kitchen, and skilled chefs are in shortage on every continent. Africa's culinary traditions are among the least documented and least commercialised in the world, and the region trains cooks by ...

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Wildlife and Destination Management

Uganda holds half the world's mountain gorillas, the source of the Nile, ten national parks and a tourism sector that is the country's largest foreign exchange earner, and it captures a fraction of the value that destinations with less to offer capture routinely. The constraint is professional ...

Bachelor of Science in Events, Conferences and Experience Management

The global meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions and live events industry is larger than most people imagine and rebuilt itself after the pandemic around professionals who can plan, produce and monetise experiences with precision. Kampala and Kigali are competing to become East Africa's ...

Bachelor of Science in Aviation, Travel and Airline Services Management

Uganda Airlines is rebuilding a national carrier, Entebbe is expanding, African aviation is projected to double in two decades, and every airline, airport, ground handler and travel company in the region reports the same shortage of people who understand aviation services as a managed, regulated, ...

Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Technology and Revenue Analytics

Hotels and travel companies now run on technology and data: property systems, distribution channels, dynamic pricing, guest profiles and personalisation decide who fills rooms profitably and who does not. Revenue managers and hospitality technologists are among the scarcest and best paid ...

Bachelor of Arts in Luxury Service and Guest Experience Design

The most valuable hospitality on earth is defined not by marble but by service: the anticipation, discretion, cultural fluency and flawless execution that seven star properties, private residences, yachts, airlines and luxury brands sell at a premium and cannot find enough people to deliver. Luxury ...

Master of Science in International Hospitality Leadership

Hotel groups expanding across Africa and the Gulf are short of general managers and multi property leaders who combine operational credibility with financial, strategic and people leadership, and they promote from a shallow pool. Experienced departmental managers in the region rarely have access to ...

Master of Science in Sustainable Tourism and Conservation Economics

The economics of conservation tourism decide whether Africa's wildlife survives, whether communities near protected areas prosper and whether destinations capture value or export it, and the professionals who can do that economics rigorously are scarce. Tourism boards, conservation organisations, ...

Master of Science in Culinary Innovation and Food Entrepreneurship

Restaurants, food brands, catering enterprises and food technology ventures are among the most common businesses founded in Africa and among the most likely to fail, usually for want of the commercial, operational and product discipline that the culinary craft alone does not teach. This taught, ...

5 departments14 programmes

Coming in future intakes

The eleven Schools, seen through their work.

International students and their instructor working with code and neural network models in a computing lab

School 1

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

The engine room of the University

Inside the School

Machine Learning and Foundation Models · Data Science and Analytics · Software, Cloud and Platform Engineering

10 departments16 programmes

International engineering students assembling a robotic arm in an advanced manufacturing workshop

School 2

School of Intelligent Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing

Where intelligence meets the physical world

Inside the School

Robotics and Embodied Intelligence · Semiconductors and Microelectronics · Mechatronics and Intelligent Manufacturing

6 departments14 programmes

Students and a technician inspecting solar panels and a weather station on an African hillside

School 3

School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems

Powering and protecting the continent

Inside the School

Renewable Energy and Power Systems · Climate Intelligence and Carbon Management · Geospatial Science and Earth Observation

8 departments15 programmes

Nursing and biomedical students practising with a clinical simulation manikin in a skills laboratory

School 4

School of Health, Life Sciences and Bioengineering

Intelligence applied to human life

Inside the School

Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health · Bioengineering and Biomanufacturing · Precision Public Health

6 departments12 programmes

Agriculture students and a lecturer examining crops and soil sensors while a drone surveys the field

School 5

School of Agriculture, Food Systems and Agricultural Technology

The largest employer, reinvented

Inside the School

Precision Agriculture and Agricultural Robotics · Food Science, Safety and Value Addition · Agribusiness Intelligence and Markets

7 departments15 programmes

Business and finance students analysing market data in a digital finance studio

School 6

School of Digital Business, Finance and Enterprise

Business rebuilt around intelligence

Inside the School

Business Artificial Intelligence · Digital Finance and Financial Technology · Supply Chain, Logistics and Digital Trade

6 departments13 programmes

Law students presenting an argument at a lectern during a moot court seminar

School 7

School of Governance, Law and Global Affairs

The rules that intelligent societies run on

Inside the School

Artificial Intelligence Policy, Ethics and Governance · Technology, Data and Commercial Law · Digital Diplomacy and Global Affairs

6 departments12 programmes

Students working with motion capture, a cinema camera and colour grading in a media studio

School 8

School of Creative Technologies and Immersive Media

Culture as a technology industry

Inside the School

Immersive Media and Extended Reality · Intelligent Audiovisual Production · Design Intelligence and Product Experience

6 departments10 programmes

Trainee teachers, including a wheelchair user, rehearsing an inclusive lesson with their mentor

School 9

School of Education Futures and Human Capability

Teaching the teachers of the intelligent age

Inside the School

Learning Engineering and Educational Artificial Intelligence · Teacher Futures and Digital Pedagogy · Lifelong Learning and Micro Credentials

5 departments12 programmes

Student founders presenting a hardware prototype to mentors in an incubator workspace

School 10

School of Business, Invention and Venture Creation

Where an idea becomes a patent, a product and a payroll

Inside the School

Artificial Intelligence Product and Platform Ventures · Technology Commercialisation and Intellectual Property · Enterprise Growth, Capital and Scale

7 departments10 programmes

Culinary students plating fine dining dishes with their chef instructor in a teaching kitchen

School 11

School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Tourism

Africa's hospitality talent, trained to a five to seven star standard

Inside the School

Hotel and Resort Management · Culinary Arts and Gastronomy · Tourism and Destination Management