Challenges facing Universities in Uganda

Abstract

Makerere University, Uganda’s oldest and biggest university, started in 1922 as a technical college. It was offering the curriculum of the University of London as Uganda was under British colonial rule by then. It later became a university College, then a University of East Africa and finally an independent University. It remained the only university in Uganda until 1988 when the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) was opened. Uganda had seen a dramatic increase in universities since the government started allowing private universities to operate in 1988. As of 2010 there were five (5) Government (Public) universities and at least 23 private universities.