University Education in Uganda

Abstract

Uganda 's higher education sector has grown very rapidly since the 1970s. Enrolment has increased from about 5900 students in 1975 to 58,091 in 2000, a growth of about 1000 per cent. Most of this growth has occurred in the university sector of higher education where 34,513 of the 58,098 tertiary-enrolled students were recorded in December 2000. Universities and teachers' colleges recorded a combined enrolment of 86 per cent of total tertiary. The breakdown for 2000 was 59 per cent for universities , 26.28 per cent for teachers' colleges, 5.68 per cent for colleges of commerce, 1/16 per cent for vocational training establishments, 1.04 per cent for technical colleges and the remaining 12.8 percent for 'other tertiary' institutions (whatever these are). The number of recognised university institutions has grown from one in 1988 to over tin in 2001. Makerere University's enrolment has grown from about 2500 in the latter part of the 1970s to about 25,000 in 2001. That is a growth of...