The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) recently approved a number
of PhD, MA and Post Graduate Diploma programmes for study at Gulu University.
The courses, now offered in the Faculty of Education and Humanities, and the Faculty of Business and Development Studies, greatly expand graduate study opportunities at the university.
The development of these programmes was fully funded by BSU as part of the porgramme’s efforts to build research, teaching and learning capacity at Gulu University.
“It is part of our mandate to support faculties and departments to develop academic programmes. The biggest benefit for Gulu University is that our academic staff who don’t have PhD can now register with Gulu University. That reduces the burden of people stumbling to Makerere [University] for PhD,” said Prof. Charles Nelson Okumu, Chair, BSU Steering Committee.
The new programmes in the Faculty of Education and Humanities are: PhD in Education (Curriculum Studies), PhD in Education (Foundations of Education), PhD in Education (Educational Psychology), PhD in Education (Educational Planning, Management and Administration), Master of Arts in Geography (MAG), Master of Arts in History, Masters of Education (Curriculum Studies), Masters of Education (Foundations of Education), Masters of Education (Educational Psychology), Masters of Education (Education Management and Administration).
The new programmes in the Faculty of Business and Development Studies are: PhD in Business and Management, MSC. Economics and Finance, Master of Monitoring and Evaluation, Master of Development Studies, Post Graduate Diploma in Community and development, Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, Post graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, and Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration and Management.
The new programmes, especially PhD, present opportunities to Gulu University staff to further benefit from BSU research grants.
