Makerere admits 1,100 foreigners
MAKERERE University has admitted 1,110 foreign students on this year’s private scheme. This brings the number of private students at the university to 4,265.
By Conan Businge
and Francis Kagolo
MAKERERE University has admitted 1,110 foreign students on this year’s private scheme. This brings the number of private students at the university to 4,265.
A total of 15,345 Ugandan students have been admitted on both government and private sponsorship.
The number of foreigners studying at Makerere University has increased substantially in the last two decades. In 1993, only 41 foreign students were enrolled in courses at Makerere University. In 1999, the number rose to 188 students.
The overall number of foreign students at all higher education institutions in Uganda went four-fold in the last few years, from almost 3,000 in 2004 to about 13,000 in 2006.
Kenya is the leading source of international students in Uganda, accounting for 71% of all foreign university students, followed by Tanzania (12%). Others come from Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.
Foreign students bring in additional resources, badly needed to improve infrastructure and academic standards as well attract and retain qualified staff.
The university charges foreign students between sh400,000 and sh700,000 more per semester than Ugandans, depending on the course.
For Bachelors of Pharmacy, Medicine and Dental Surgery, where Ugandans pay sh960,000 per semester, foreign students are charged sh1.6m.
For engineering courses, architecture, land economics and quantitative surveying, foreign students pay sh450,000 more per semester than their Ugandan counterparts.
In addition, Ugandans pay sh20,000 application fee for graduate studies while non-Ugandans pay $50 (about sh100,000).
President Yoweri Museveni in November last year directed the university, alongside other public academic institutions, to remove the discrimination in fees between local and foreign students.
The President argued that foreign students incur a lot of costs in travel, accommodation and upkeep.
His directive came after a week of riots by Kenyan students at Makerere University who protested the “discriminative†tuition charges.
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and Francis Kagolo
MAKERERE University has admitted 1,110 foreign students on this year’s private scheme. This brings the number of private students at the university to 4,265.
A total of 15,345 Ugandan students have been admitted on both government and private sponsorship.
The number of foreigners studying at Makerere University has increased substantially in the last two decades. In 1993, only 41 foreign students were enrolled in courses at Makerere University. In 1999, the number rose to 188 students.
The overall number of foreign students at all higher education institutions in Uganda went four-fold in the last few years, from almost 3,000 in 2004 to about 13,000 in 2006.
Kenya is the leading source of international students in Uganda, accounting for 71% of all foreign university students, followed by Tanzania (12%). Others come from Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.
Foreign students bring in additional resources, badly needed to improve infrastructure and academic standards as well attract and retain qualified staff.
The university charges foreign students between sh400,000 and sh700,000 more per semester than Ugandans, depending on the course.
For Bachelors of Pharmacy, Medicine and Dental Surgery, where Ugandans pay sh960,000 per semester, foreign students are charged sh1.6m.
For engineering courses, architecture, land economics and quantitative surveying, foreign students pay sh450,000 more per semester than their Ugandan counterparts.
In addition, Ugandans pay sh20,000 application fee for graduate studies while non-Ugandans pay $50 (about sh100,000).
President Yoweri Museveni in November last year directed the university, alongside other public academic institutions, to remove the discrimination in fees between local and foreign students.
The President argued that foreign students incur a lot of costs in travel, accommodation and upkeep.
His directive came after a week of riots by Kenyan students at Makerere University who protested the “discriminative†tuition charges.
Full list
HERE