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School 3

School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems

Powering and protecting the continent

Africa holds the minerals, the sunlight, the water and the carbon sinks on which the global energy transition depends, and captures a fraction of the value. This School builds the engineers and scientists who will electrify the continent, industrialise its mineral wealth responsibly, and turn climate and earth observation data into national decision advantage. It answers directly to the carbon neutrality, energy science and earth systems disciplines that leading catalogues elsewhere have now institutionalised, and it treats value addition, processing minerals rather than exporting them, measuring carbon rather than importing the measurement, as the organising commercial idea.

Departments
6
Degree programmes
14
Credit units
1,886
Award levels
4

Source: Curriculum Compendium, Path One, page 316.

Departments and degrees

6 departments, 14 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 Renewable Energy and Power Systems

Solar, hydro, geothermal, storage, mini grids, smart grids and power electronics engineered for African operating conditions.

2 degrees
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Department of Climate Intelligence and Carbon Management

Climate modelling and downscaling, carbon accounting and verification, adaptation science, carbon markets and environmental economics.

3 degrees
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Department of Geospatial Science and Earth Observation

Remote sensing, satellite data science, geographic information systems, photogrammetry and spatial modelling.

2 degrees
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Department of Extractives, Minerals and Energy Resources

Mining engineering, critical minerals processing, metallurgy, petroleum systems and resource governance.

3 degrees
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Department of Water and Environmental Engineering

Water resources, sanitation engineering, environmental monitoring, pollution control and circular systems.

2 degrees
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Department of Grid and Energy Storage Engineering

1 degree
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Cross departmental, School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems

1 degree
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Programmes accepting applications

Showing 14 of 14 programmes

BEng (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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.

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BEng (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BEng (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BEng (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

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 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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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 ...

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 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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
PhDHybrid · 3 to 5 years · Intake August 2027

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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 ...

Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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...

Includes 12 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.

  • BEng Grid and Storage Systems · Future intake
  • BSc Water and Environmental Systems · Future intake
  • BSc Critical Minerals and Responsible Extraction · Future intake
  • MSc Climate Adaptation Finance · Future intake
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