The university offers a variety of degree, diploma and certificate courses. A student is expected to make intelligent choices from the available academic programs that will lead to a lifetime career. Students coming from non-English speaking countries will be required to write an English placement examination prior to enrolling for their first semester. If the student does not obtain 50% in this test, he/she will be required to attend remedial English classes for at least one semester.
Semester Sessions
The university operates under a semester system. Each semester runs for 18 weeks subdivided in this way: one week of registration, 15 weeks of instruction, and two weeks for final examination. The value of each course offered is expressed in terms of credit units. One credit unit represents one fifty-minute class period in each of 15 weeks, two hours of tutorial, or two to three hours of practical periods per week for 15 weeks of the semester. The student is expected to spend a minimum of two hours of outside prepara tion for each class period. Every academic year consists of two regular semesters: first semester from mid-August to mid-December; second semester from early January to early May. For Diploma and Certificate in Nursing the semesters run according to the Nursing Counsil of Uganda.
