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School 7

School of Governance, Law and Global Affairs

The rules that intelligent societies run on

Every technological revolution creates a governance vacuum, and the countries that fill it early write the rules that everyone else must follow. Uganda has no dedicated artificial intelligence legislation, and Africa has a continental strategy but a thin pipeline of people able to implement it. This School builds the lawyers, regulators, diplomats, behavioural scientists and public service designers who will govern intelligent systems in the African interest. Its distinguishing feature is technical: students here do not merely study technology policy, they read code, test models, interrogate datasets and audit systems, because a regulator who cannot open the bonnet regulates only what she is shown.

Departments
6
Degree programmes
13
Credit units
1,402
Award levels
8

Source: Curriculum Compendium, Path One, page 713.

Departments and degrees

6 departments, 13 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 Artificial Intelligence Policy, Ethics and Governance

Algorithmic accountability, safety assurance, standards, audit regimes and public interest technology.

2 degrees
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Department of Technology, Data and Commercial Law

Data protection, intellectual property, cyber law, commercial contracting and dispute resolution.

3 degrees
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Department of Digital Diplomacy and Global Affairs

International relations, trade negotiation, technology diplomacy and continental integration.

3 degrees
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Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Science

Human decision making, behavioural economics, cognitive science and the psychology of technology adoption.

1 degree
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Department of Digital Government and Public Service Innovation

Digital public infrastructure, service delivery redesign, public finance analytics and institutional reform.

2 degrees
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Department of Integrity and Institutional Systems

Integrity and anti corruption systems, forensic analysis and investigation, audit and oversight mechanisms, and intelligent detection applied to public and private institutions.

1 degree
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Cross departmental, School of Governance, Law and Global Affairs

1 degree
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Open now · First accreditation wave

Programmes accepting applications

Showing 13 of 13 programmes

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

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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 ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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. ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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 ...

Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

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

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 ...

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.

  • LLB Law and Regulation · Future intake
  • BA Global Affairs and Trade · Future intake
  • MPA Public Administration · Future intake
  • MSc Integrity and Institutional Systems · Future intake
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