Academic Study Abroad Opportunities in Uganda

Academic Study Abroad Opportunities in Uganda

Uganda Development Studies

Kipling Road, PO Box 676
Brattleboro, VT, 05302-067, USA
Phone: 1-888-272-7881 or 1-802-258-3212

Where: Kampala in Uganda
When: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

SIT Study Abroad In Kampala, Uganda's thriving capital, you examine issues of social and economic development, working closely with faculty and students from Makerere University. Through an in-depth, hands-on practicum with one of the country's many international or grassroots development agencies, you deepen your understanding of the practice of development work.

Overview Intensive Language Study: Luganda; Development Studies Seminar: Ugandan Life and Culture, Development Studies, Educational Excursions; Field Study Seminar; and Development Practicum. (16 credits in total)

Setting Six weeks homestay in Kampala and one week in a rural area. Field visits to organizations with ongoing development projects and educational exursions to Western Uganda, Rwanda, and rural areas in Eastern Uganda.

Value Please inquire for costs: Fees include tuition, full room and board, all field trips and related fares, health and accident insurance, and other direct program expenses. Participants pay for international airfare and domestic travel to the point of departure from the USA.

Makerere University

111 John Street, Suite 800
New York, NY, 10038, U.S.A.
Phone: 1.800.831.5095

Where: Uganda

Makerere University Makerere University is Uganda's premier institution of higher learning. With a student population of over 20,000, it ranks as one of the largest in East and Central Africa.

Setting It is located on Makerere hill, one of the many hills on which Kampala, the capital city of Uganda is built. The main campus is about 5km to the north of the city centre covering an area of 300 acres (two square kilometres).

Uganda Martyrs University

P.O. Box 5498
Kampala, Uganda
Phone: 01-00-256-481-21894/5

Where: Kampala in Uganda

Uganda Martyrs University To provide high quality education which will prepare students for their future fields of occupation and service. To cultivate and promote its chosen disciplines and specializations within the context of the knowledge of Christian principles by continually revising its academic and outreach programmes.

Overview Our graduates will be encouraged to foster the social, economic, spiritual, and moral development both of the individual and of society

Setting The University is situated in a rural area on the equator at Nkozi, some 82 km west of Kampala on the Kampala-Masaka road.

Value To encourage the development of individuals of democratic character, virtue, intellect, creativity, self-criticism, wisdom, skill, integrity, acumen, leadership, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance.

Utah State University, Forest Resources

Logan, Utah, 84322, USA
Phone: 1-801-797-2575

Where: Uganda
When: Spring Semester

Utah State University, Forest Resources Three-week field course on troical ecology.