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School 6

School of Digital Business, Finance and Enterprise

Business rebuilt around intelligence

The generic business degree is the most oversupplied and least differentiated qualification in Africa, and it is precisely the category that other systems have been retiring at scale. Forward University does not offer a general business degree. It offers business degrees that are inseparable from artificial intelligence, financial technology, digital trade and measured commercial performance. Every programme in this School is taught against live financial data, live markets or live client engagements, and every graduate leaves with an audited record of commercial work rather than a folder of case study essays. Where School Ten builds inventors and founders of new technology ventures, this School builds the analysts, financiers, operators and assurance professionals who make enterprises run intelligently.

Departments
7
Degree programmes
15
Credit units
1,680
Award levels
4

Source: Curriculum Compendium, Path One, page 615.

Departments and degrees

7 departments, 15 degree programmes

Every degree below is published in the Curriculum Compendium with a full term-by-term and block-by-block curriculum, programme learning outcomes and an employment thesis.

Department of Business Artificial Intelligence

Applied analytics for enterprise, automation of business processes, artificial intelligence strategy and organisational adoption.

3 degrees
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Department of Digital Finance and Financial Technology

Payments, mobile money, digital lending, digital assets, risk modelling and financial regulation.

3 degrees
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Department of Supply Chain, Logistics and Digital Trade

Trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area, logistics optimisation, procurement analytics and customs technology.

2 degrees
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Department of Venture Building and Entrepreneurship

Company formation, product market discovery, growth systems, investment readiness and family enterprise.

2 degrees
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Department of Accounting, Assurance and Algorithmic Audit

Financial reporting, taxation, forensic accounting and the audit of automated and algorithmic systems.

2 degrees
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Department of Growth, Marketing and Customer Systems

Growth strategy, marketing systems, customer data and lifecycle analytics, brand and demand generation, run with intelligent experimentation and measurement throughout.

1 degree
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Department of Actuarial and Risk Data Science

1 degree
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Cross departmental, School of Digital Business, Finance and Enterprise

1 degree
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Open now · First accreditation wave

Programmes accepting applications

Showing 15 of 15 programmes

BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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.

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Growth and Marketing 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. The region trains marketers for a world of brand slogans while employers need people who can build ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Operations, Trade and Logistics

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 operations, trade and logistics is still taught here as clerical procedure rather than as ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
DoctorateHybrid · 3 to 4 years · Intake August 2027

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MBAHybrid · 18 months (3 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MScHybrid · 18 months (3 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MScHybrid · 12 months (2 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MScHybrid · 12 months (2 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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, ...

Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

Planned, not yet accredited

These programmes are designed but will not open until the relevant accreditation wave is complete. We list them so the pipeline is visible, not to imply you can apply.

  • BSc Operations, Trade and Logistics · Future intake
  • BSc Accounting and Capital Markets · Future intake
  • BSc Growth and Marketing Systems · Future intake
  • MSc Venture Building · Future intake
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