Nkrumah University

Nkrumah University
Motto Excellence for Excellence
Type Public
Established 1971
Location Kabwe, Zambia
14°26′42″S 28°28′02″E / 14.44500°S 28.46722°E / -14.44500; 28.46722Coordinates: 14°26′42″S 28°28′02″E / 14.44500°S 28.46722°E / -14.44500; 28.46722
Campus Urban
Website Official website

The Nkrumah University is Zambia's largest teacher training university, founded in 1971. It has a student population of about 12,000

Organisation

Governance

The University Senate runs the university under the supervision of the University Council. There are four schools namely; the school of Natural Science, the school of Business Studies, the school of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the school of Education. There are two institutes; Institute of Open and Distance Learning, and the Centre for Information and Communication Technology.

Academics

The Nkrumah University is divided into 4 schools:

  1. Life Sciences
  2. Physical Sciences
  3. Mathematics an Statistics
  4. Physical Education
  1. Computing and Communication Technologies
  2. Accounting, Economics and Finance
  3. Marketing and Management Studies
  1. Psychology And Sociology
  2. Educational Administration and Policy Studies
  3. Languages and Social Sciences Education
  4. Mathematics and Science Education
  5. Special Education
  1. Social Sciences
  2. Languages
  3. Religious Studies
  4. Liguistics

Campus

Nkrumah University has two campus locations. The main campus Munkoyo Street Campus is about 3 km from the Kabwe city center. Nkrumah University has recently acquired the PAID-ESA campus along the same street (Previously the Pan African Institute for Development - East/Southern Africa); this campus will help expand the capacity of the university.

Other facilities

Student life

Activities

Press and radio

Nkruman Times

Students residences

Affiliations

Nkrumah is a new member of the Association of African Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the International Association of Universities.

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