UMI graduates 2,000 starts PhD courses

AS UGANDA Management Institute graduates 2,081 students this year, at its 10th graduation ceremony, it will be taking on a bolder move to start a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhDs) programme. 

The graduation will be held at its main campus, in Kampala, this Friday.  Of these graduands, 48% of the graduands are females and 52% males. Of the graduands, 255 will receive the Master’s degree awards, 1,653 postgraduate diplomas and 173 ordinary diploma awards.

 

Meanwhile, UMI will this year begin teaching students at the level of Doctorates in Philosophy (PhDs). 

 

The three-year Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) in Management and Administration programme will start this academic year at the institute. 

 

The institute’ publicist Harriet Adakun, says that admitted candidates will be expected to start in May this year.

 

The PhD has five major specialisations including, public administration, public procurement, business administration, higher education management and administration, and institutional management and leadership. 

 

Adakun told ‘New Vision’ the program provides a solid methodological basis, exposure to forefront themes and methods, and the ability to design and implement research projects in management and administration disciplines.

 

She added that the nature of management and administrative problems experienced in the world of work today, “demands high level graduates with extensive theoretical and practical management and administrative 

 

In Uganda, many universities offer doctoral studies by research or thesis only. There are very few, PhDs by coursework and dissertation in the field of Management and Administration, which UMI wants to do.

 

The duration of the PhD will be three years with coursework and dissertation. The program will be interdisciplinary in its focus especially in the teaching and coursework component. 

 

The programme will target university lecturers, lecturers of administrative and management sciences in other tertiary institutions, research fellows; and top level managers in public and private sectors.