Makerere University

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Makerere University Kampala (MUK)

Motto: We Build for the Future
Established: 1922
Type: Public
Vice-Chancellor: Livingstone Luboobi
Students: 30,000
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Campus: Urban
Website: http://www.mak.ac.ug

Makerere University, Uganda's largest university, was first established as a technical school in 1922, and in 1963 it became the University of East Africa, offering courses leading to general degrees of the University of London. It became an independent national university in 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: University of Nairobi (Kenya), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Makerere University. Today, Makerere University has 22 faculties, institutes and schools offering programmes for about 30,000 undergraduates and 3,000 postgraduates.

Makerere was home to many post-independence African leaders, including former Ugandan president Milton Obote and late Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa and current Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki are also Makerere alumni.

In the years immediately after Ugandan independence, Makerere University was a focal point for the literary activity that was central to African nationalist culture. Some prominent writers, including Nuruddin Farah, Ali Mazrui, David Rubadiri, Okello Oculi, Ngugi wa Thiongo, John Ruganda, Paul Theroux, and Peter Nazareth, were at Makerere University at one point in their writing and academic careers.

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[edit] Faculties

Makerere University clock tower
Makerere University clock tower
  • Faculty of Agriculture [1]
  • Faculty of Arts [2]
  • Faculty of Computing and Information Technology [3]
  • Faculty of Economics and Management [4]
  • Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation [5]
  • Faculty of Law [6]
  • Faculty of Medicine [7]
  • Faculty of Science [8]
  • Faculty of Social Sciences [9]
  • Faculty of Technology [10]
  • Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and animal production [11]

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  • Institute of Adult and Continuing Education [12]
  • Institute of Environment and Natural Resources
  • Institute of Social Research[13]
  • Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics and Psychology[14]

[edit] Schools

  • School of Education [15]
  • School of Industrial and Fine Arts
  • School of Library and Information Science [16]
  • Business School [17]
  • Graduate School [18]

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[edit] Notable alumni

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[edit] Writers and journalists

[edit] Others

John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, read law at Makerere
John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, read law at Makerere

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