(This article was first published in the New Vision on September 30, 2022)
By Dennis Ojwee
The state-owned Gulu University has admitted 1,923 students for academic year 2022/2023. Of those, comprising of 509 are female.
The list indicates that 1,751 students were admitted, covering the biggest admission scope from certificate to master’s degree courses, with the majority running on weekend study programmes.
Paul Oboke, the academic registrar in charge of admissions at the university, said most of the courses will be conducted at the university main campus, plus the auxiliary campuses or study centres at Hoima city and in Kitgum municipality, among others.
Oboke said at least 189 male students and 86 female students were admitted in post-graduate diploma courses in development studies and education. They include 178 male students and a female under the faculty of education and humanities, plus 11 female students in the faculty of education.
He said the largest number, of about 63.2%, of the admitted students are for bachelor’s degrees, diplomas and certificate courses, while those for PhD programmes, master’s degrees and post-graduate diplomas are at least 36.8% of the total number of admitted students. (24.7%) were admitted under the faculty of business and development studies, taking the largest number admitted, followed by 475 students in the faculty of education and humanities alone.
Since Gulu university started 20 years ago at the Gulu district farm institute during the peak of the lord’s resistance army war led by Joseph Kony in northern Uganda, the number of faculties has risen from the original three to seven now.
The four other faculties that were added to those of agriculture and environment science, education and humanities, as well as business and development studies, are medicine, peace and strategic studies and, lately, law.
Oboke said Gulu University currently closely links with other international universities globally, including state university of Zanzibar, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Kilimanjaro Christian medical university colleges, Aalborg University and Copenhagen University.
