University of Dodoma Tanzania

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The University of Dodoma is a university currently under construction in the Tanzanian city of Dodoma.

Building is taking place on a 6,000 hectare site near Dodoma, a regional centre about 400 km due west of Dar es Salaam.

Teaching began in 2007 when just over 1,000 students enrolled for programmes offered in the schools of Humanities, and Social Sciences, as well as the colleges of Education, and Informatics and Virtual Education.

Schools of Life Sciences, and Health and Allied Sciences were launched in 2008.

In line with the country’s National Development Vision 2025, the University of Dodoma, when fully operational, will be able to enrol 40,000 students in a variety of academic disciplines.

This is more than double the present size of the University of Dar es Salaam

Establishment of University Of Dodoma

The University of Dodoma was formaly established in March 2007 following the signing of the charter by the president of United republic of Tanzania. The first academic programmes commenced in September 2007.

The University has been designed on a campus college mode each of which will be semi autonomous. In its structure, six colleges are envisaged when the university if fully established by 2012/13. There are:

• College of Education

• College fo Hummanities and Social Sciences

• College of Informatics and Virtual Education

• College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

• College of Health and Allied Sciences

• College of Earth Sciences

UDOM initially started with four schools, namely Education, Humanities, Social Sciences and informatics.

Currently three colleges and two schools are Operational.

These are College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and College of Informatics and Virtual Education. In addition there are four schools on transition to Campus College.

These are School of Natural Sciences and mathematics, on transition to College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics;

School of Medicine and Nursing on transition to College of Health and Allied Sciences; and School of Mines and Petroleum to College of Earth Sciences.

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