Namugongo, Budo lead Makerere
May 10, 2006
KING’S College Budo and Uganda Martyrs’ Secondary School Namugongo sent the highest number of students to Makerere University under the merit system.
By John Eremu
KING’S College Budo and Uganda Martyrs’ Secondary School Namugongo sent the highest number of students to Makerere University under the merit system.
The two schools, each with 92 students, constitute more than 11% of the 1,614 students admitted to the university’s main campus and the Nakawa-based Business School (MUBS).
The other schools that sent substantial numbers of students included Kawempe Muslim with 68, St. Mary’s Kitende 60, Namagunga College, 59 and Gayaza High and Nabisunsa Girls, each with 50.
Analysis by The New Vision shows that only 190 out of the over 2,000 A’level secondary schools nationwide sent students to Makerere on merit.
Another 890 students were taken under the district quota system. Of those taken on merit, 5% or 79 students, were diploma holders and 3% or 47 were mature entrants.
The figures also show that females constituted only 40.8% or 659 students of the total merit intake. Males were 955 or 59.2%.
Besides Our Lady of Good Counsel Gayaza, Naalya SS, Kajansi Progressive, Mugwanya Summit, Wampewo Ntake and Greenhill Academy, the schools that dominated the merit system also sent a substantial number of students under the district quota system.
In the various programmes, Namugongo dominated human medicine with 13 students, closely followed by Budo with 12, Namagunga 10 and Gayaza 9.
Namugongo and St. Mary’s College Kisubi each had five students for civil engineering, the highest number sent by a single school. Budo followed them with three but topped pharmacy with three other students. Namagunga, Kisubi and Kawempe each had two for pharmacy.
In Arts, Kawempe Muslim had 18 students for law. Namirembe Hillside followed it with eight, Nabisunsa Girls seven and Ndejje five.
Like under the district quota system, statistics indicate wide district and regional disparity under the merit system, with the central region taking the lion’s share of 41.8% or 675 slots followed by the western region with 442 (27.4%), eastern 342 (21.2%) and northern 156 (9.6%).
In the districts, Kampala led with 231 students (14.3%) followed by Wakiso with 177 (11%) and Masaka 79 (4.9%).
Districts with the least number of students include Amolatar, Bulisa, Busiki, Kilak, Manafwa and Nakapiripirit. Each had only one student.
Butaleja, Kaberamaido, Nakaseke, Nakasongola and Soroti each had seven students, Yumbe six; Amuria and Moyo five each; Adjumani, Kalangala, Kaliro and Kapchorwa four each; Bubulo, Dokolo and Moroto three each, while Budibugyo, Kamwenge, Maracha and Oyam had two students each.
KING’S College Budo and Uganda Martyrs’ Secondary School Namugongo sent the highest number of students to Makerere University under the merit system.
The two schools, each with 92 students, constitute more than 11% of the 1,614 students admitted to the university’s main campus and the Nakawa-based Business School (MUBS).
The other schools that sent substantial numbers of students included Kawempe Muslim with 68, St. Mary’s Kitende 60, Namagunga College, 59 and Gayaza High and Nabisunsa Girls, each with 50.
Analysis by The New Vision shows that only 190 out of the over 2,000 A’level secondary schools nationwide sent students to Makerere on merit.
Another 890 students were taken under the district quota system. Of those taken on merit, 5% or 79 students, were diploma holders and 3% or 47 were mature entrants.
The figures also show that females constituted only 40.8% or 659 students of the total merit intake. Males were 955 or 59.2%.
Besides Our Lady of Good Counsel Gayaza, Naalya SS, Kajansi Progressive, Mugwanya Summit, Wampewo Ntake and Greenhill Academy, the schools that dominated the merit system also sent a substantial number of students under the district quota system.
In the various programmes, Namugongo dominated human medicine with 13 students, closely followed by Budo with 12, Namagunga 10 and Gayaza 9.
Namugongo and St. Mary’s College Kisubi each had five students for civil engineering, the highest number sent by a single school. Budo followed them with three but topped pharmacy with three other students. Namagunga, Kisubi and Kawempe each had two for pharmacy.
In Arts, Kawempe Muslim had 18 students for law. Namirembe Hillside followed it with eight, Nabisunsa Girls seven and Ndejje five.
Like under the district quota system, statistics indicate wide district and regional disparity under the merit system, with the central region taking the lion’s share of 41.8% or 675 slots followed by the western region with 442 (27.4%), eastern 342 (21.2%) and northern 156 (9.6%).
In the districts, Kampala led with 231 students (14.3%) followed by Wakiso with 177 (11%) and Masaka 79 (4.9%).
Districts with the least number of students include Amolatar, Bulisa, Busiki, Kilak, Manafwa and Nakapiripirit. Each had only one student.
Butaleja, Kaberamaido, Nakaseke, Nakasongola and Soroti each had seven students, Yumbe six; Amuria and Moyo five each; Adjumani, Kalangala, Kaliro and Kapchorwa four each; Bubulo, Dokolo and Moroto three each, while Budibugyo, Kamwenge, Maracha and Oyam had two students each.