Bulawayo Polytechnic College

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Bulawayo Polytechnic College is an academic institution in Zimbabwe.

The college provides a number of Higher education qualifications. It has been attempting to become a University College but the ZANU PF policy of incapacitating the Matabele people has frustrated these efforts. It has played host to exchange students from many countries including the United States of America and western Europe.

The National University of Science and Technology used Bulawayo Polytechnic facilities to get started. The institution has been in Bulawayo since 1975.

It has two campuses in Bulawayo and provides technical education for the country. It has, however, been stopped from providing studies in subjects such as Media studies because the ZANU PF administration wants the Matabele who enter the field to have lived in Harare so they can be limited in challenging the establishment.

The institution boasts of famous students such as Mr Nkululeko Sibanda, who, although expelled from the College, became the President of the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) becoming the first and only person to lead ZINASU without being a University student. During his term of office ZINASU won the International Student Peace Price in Norway.