St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) is a secular non-profit, private institution of higher learning founded by the Catholic Bishops of Tanzania in 1998, accredited in 2002. SAUT is committed to being a center of excellence through education, research and community service and currently has 2,649 students with an anticipated 3,500 students for the 2007/08 academic year. The University attracts students from Tanzania and elsewhere; particularly the countries of East and Central Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, and recently Germany and other foreign nations . SAUT admits students of all nationalities and religious affiliations.
Located in East Africa, SAUT extends over 600 acres (2.4 km2) in the Nyegezi-Malimbe area, 10 km south of Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria. The University is divided into two campuses. The main campus(old campus) houses the administration buildings and the Faculty of Business Administration. The Malimbe campus, located one km away, is home to the Faculty of Law,Social sciences, Engineering, Business administration, Education and Mass Communication. SAUT is the only Catholic, private university in Tanzania.
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To be a centre of excellence providing a high quality of holistic education, undertaking research and providing service to the public.
SAUT strives to be a center of excellence by:
Fostering an ethical and service-oriented approach in its academic and professional training, SAUT fulfills its goals by preparing persons well equipped to contribute to the ideals of social, economic and political development.
When the Catholic Bishops of Tanzania decided to extend the Church’s services to the provision of higher education, they envisioned a training that would not only impart academic and professional skills but also that would inculcate values of civic and social learning and ethics such as acquisition of national identity, cultural norms, political growth and responsible citizenship. Thus the Church’s vision is to develop a whole person.
St. Augustine University of Tanzania retained the Advanced Diploma and Certificate Programs previously offered by its predecessor, the Nyegezi Social Training Institute, and in addition offers a bachelors and a masters program within a numerous number of faculties.
The Faculty of Law offers a Four years bachelor of Law degree(LL. B), and a Masters degree in Law (LL. M)on various specialisations such as Masters in Economic Law, and various others. The Faculty has also built itself a name in the International Arena through several continuous participation in the international moot court competitions. Such as the African Human rights Moot Court Competition in 2009 and 2011, ranking the first among Tanzanian participating universities such as University of Dar Es Salaam, Ruaha University College (one of its constituent colleges), and the Open University of Tanzania in 2009 Lagos, Nigeria competition. In the 2011 pretoria, SOuth Africa Competition, it took the same lead against Muslims University, and Mzumbe University in the same Africa's most prestigious competition. The Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is another more prestigious competition done every year in Washington D.C., USA this is also another area where the faculty has built so much proficiency, since it first participated in 2010, Voice of America's Shaka Ssali reveals this in a personal interview with the dean of the faculty of Law in the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYABIpz2ZA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c768hY3HXuc on in focus.
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications offers a Master of Arts in Mass Communication, a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, a Bachelor of Arts in Education,Bachelor of Arts in Public relations and Marketing,Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, an Advanced Diploma in Journalism, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mass Communication, a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and marketing,Bachelor of arts Philosophy and Ethics and a Certificate Course in Journalism and Media Studies.
The Faculty of Business Administration offers a Bachelor of Business Administration, BA in Accounting and Finance, BA in Marketing, BA in Human Resources, BA in Procurement and Logistics and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Apart from the degree programs, an Advanced Diploma in Accountancy, an Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Logistics Management, a Certificate Course in Accountancy, a Certificate course in Health Administration, a Certificate Course in Food Security and Grain Management, a Certificate in Logistics Management and a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting and Finance are offered.
The University prouds itself of several other campuses:
The University incorporates the following constituent colleges:
Future programs of SAUT include Agricultural Science (in Mwanza), an Institute for Rural Development (Mwanza), Masters of Business Administration (Mwanza) and a Constituent College of Law and Applied Sciences and Technology (Songea).
SAUT is a member of the Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACHUIAM), the Inter-University Council of East Africa, the Tanzania Association of Private Universities, the Commonwealth Association of Universities of Africa, and the Council for Higher Education, and the Association of Member Episcopal Conference of Eastern Africa (AMECEA).