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Schools

Departments

143

Degree programmes

15,700+

Credit units

12 months

Paid co-op, every undergraduate

Founding intake: zero students enrolled to date. We publish real figures, applicants, co-op partners and programme reviews, from day one at /accountability. Last updated 1 August 2026.

The Bridge · Higher Education Certificate

One principal pass? Your university door is not closed.

Every learner admitted to this certificate was capable of more than their UACE result shows. One intensive year, honestly assessed, taught by the University's own staff to the University's own standard, and you enter year one of a degree as a strong student rather than a provisional one.

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A rigorous pathway into year one

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The Forward Challenge

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Five bite-sized days with Mwalimu, our learning companion: find your mission, learn the AI fluency basics, solve a real African problem, teach it back, and leave with a capability snapshot. Finish it and you keep a shareable Forward Challenger badge and an application fee waiver.

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About Forward

A university designed for the world that's arriving, not the one that's leaving.

We exist to graduate the founders, engineers, scientists, designers, lawyers and leaders Africa needs in the next twenty-five years. Every programme, every studio, every line of our curriculum is built with one question in mind: what will this work look like in 2050?

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Eleven Schools · One Forward

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School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

The engine room of the University

Inside the School

Machine Learning and Foundation Models · Data Science and Analytics · Software, Cloud and Platform Engineering

5 departments14 programmes

A diverse student team calibrating a six-axis robotic arm in a workshop

School of Intelligent Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing

Where intelligence meets the physical world

Inside the School

Robotics and Embodied Intelligence · Semiconductors and Microelectronics · Mechatronics and Intelligent Manufacturing

10 departments16 programmes

Engineers inspecting solar panels and a weather station on an African hillside

School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems

Powering and protecting the continent

Inside the School

Renewable Energy and Power Systems · Climate Intelligence and Carbon Management · Geospatial Science and Earth Observation

6 departments14 programmes

Clinicians, including a prosthetic leg user, working around a point-of-care diagnostic device

School of Health, Life Sciences and Bioengineering

Intelligence applied to human life

Inside the School

Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health · Bioengineering and Biomanufacturing · Precision Public Health

8 departments15 programmes

Agronomists using soil sensors in a field while a drone surveys overhead

School of Agriculture, Food Systems and Agricultural Technology

The largest employer, reinvented

Inside the School

Precision Agriculture and Agricultural Robotics · Food Science, Safety and Value Addition · Agribusiness Intelligence and Markets

6 departments12 programmes

International finance students analysing market data around an interactive table

School of Digital Business, Finance and Enterprise

Business rebuilt around intelligence

Inside the School

Business Artificial Intelligence · Digital Finance and Financial Technology · Supply Chain, Logistics and Digital Trade

7 departments15 programmes

Law students presenting and reviewing an argument in a contemporary moot court

School of Governance, Law and Global Affairs

The rules that intelligent societies run on

Inside the School

Artificial Intelligence Policy, Ethics and Governance · Technology, Data and Commercial Law · Digital Diplomacy and Global Affairs

6 departments13 programmes

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School of Creative Technologies and Immersive Media

Culture as a technology industry

Inside the School

Immersive Media and Extended Reality · Intelligent Audiovisual Production · Design Intelligence and Product Experience

6 departments12 programmes

Trainee teachers, including a wheelchair user, rehearsing a lesson with their mentor

School of Education Futures and Human Capability

Teaching the teachers of the intelligent age

Inside the School

Learning Engineering and Educational Artificial Intelligence · Teacher Futures and Digital Pedagogy · Lifelong Learning and Micro Credentials

6 departments10 programmes

Student founders and mentors testing a product prototype in an incubator workshop

School of Business, Invention and Venture Creation

Where an idea becomes a patent, a product and a payroll

Inside the School

Artificial Intelligence Product and Platform Ventures · Technology Commercialisation and Intellectual Property · Enterprise Growth, Capital and Scale

5 departments12 programmes

Culinary students plating East African dishes with a chef instructor in a teaching kitchen

School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Tourism

Africa's hospitality talent, trained to a five to seven star standard

Inside the School

Hotel and Resort Management · Culinary Arts and Gastronomy · Tourism and Destination Management

7 departments10 programmes

Every AI tool, in one place

Mwalimu, the Challenge, capability radars and more, all live at the AI hub.

Forward's AI-assisted learning tools, from your learning companion to the Forward Challenge, are collected in one place so you can see how AI is used across the university before you apply.

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First accreditation wave

11 programmes built around work that matters.

Every programme names the roles, employers and outcomes it is designed to produce. The employment thesis is published before you apply.

FU/AIC/BSAI

Study modeCampus · Online · Hybrid

4 years (8 semesters)

BSc (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

Artificial intelligence and big data is the fastest growing skill category in the world, two thirds of employers intend to hire specifically for it, and the measured wage premium for demonstrable AI capability now exceeds sixty per cent of ...

Career directions

Machine learning engineer · applied scientist

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FU/AIC/BDSA

Study modeCampus · Online · Hybrid

3 years (6 semesters)

BSc (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Analytics

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

Every institution in Uganda now holds more data than it can interpret, and almost none of them can convert it into a decision. The gap is not modelling talent; it is the far scarcer ability to move from a messy administrative dataset to a d...

Career directions

Data scientist · analytics engineer

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FU/AIC/BSEI

Study modeCampus · Online · Hybrid

4 years (8 semesters)

BSc (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering with Intelligent Systems

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

The largest addressable domestic technology market in Uganda is software, and the largest single complaint from employers is that graduates can pass an algorithms examination but have never shipped anything to a user, never operated a syste...

Career directions

Software engineer · backend, frontend and full stack engineer

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FU/AIC/BCDT

Study modeCampus · Online · Hybrid

3 years (6 semesters)

BSc (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

Uganda is digitising public services, payments and identity faster than it is producing people qualified to defend them, and the shortage is acute at exactly the level — hands on defensive operations — where the region's degree programmes a...

Career directions

Security operations centre analyst · incident responder

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FU/AIC/BCSQ

Study modeCampus · Online · Hybrid

4 years (8 semesters)

BSc (Hons)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Advanced and Quantum Computing

School of Artificial Intelligence and Computing

Every serious technology economy needs a small number of people who understand computation deeply enough to build the layer everyone else stands on: compilers, runtimes, schedulers, numerical kernels, cryptographic primitives and, increasin...

Career directions

Systems and compiler engineer · high performance computing engineer

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FU/IEM/BREI

Study modeCampus · Hybrid

4 years (8 semesters)

BEng (Hons)

Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics and Embodied Intelligence

School of Intelligent Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing

Embodied intelligence has just been created as a formal undergraduate discipline in the world's largest university system, with institutions fast tracked to deliver it, and no African university offers a dedicated undergraduate degree in it...

Career directions

Robotics engineer · controls engineer

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Campus

A campus built like a statement about the future.

Explore the three-phase campus master plan, where the two retained architectural renders are clearly labelled as visualisations rather than completed buildings.

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Founding log

How we are being built

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Accreditation

First accreditation wave submitted for twelve programmes

Twelve programmes form the first accreditation wave and are the only programmes accepting applications. The remaining planned programmes are published as placeholders with no entry route, and will not open until their own wave clears review.

In progress · Current

Academic

Forward Core assessment rubrics written and moderated

Each of the five Core requirements now has a rubric that is graded inside programme modules rather than bolted on as a separate certificate. Moderation is being run across Schools so a Core grade means the same thing in engineering as it does in the arts.

In progress · Current

Cooperative education

Cooperative-education employer pipeline under negotiation

Placements must be paid, twelve months long and assessed against the same rubric everywhere, which rules out unpaid internships and shadowing. Because the placement is compulsory, no cohort will be admitted larger than the confirmed placement capacity for that intake.

In progress · Current

Named specialists, measured promises

Every promise a university makes needs a person whose whole job is to keep it.

A programme mentor from enrolment to graduation. Instructors who answer within one working day. Evaluators who never taught you. Marking back in 72 hours. See who owns each promise and where it is measured.

1 working day · Subject answer turnaround
72 hours · Marking turnaround
Every 2 weeks · Programme mentor calls

Who keeps the promises

What we commit to in writing

No students yet. Commitments already published.

The Forward Core

Five compulsory cross-cutting requirements, AI fluency, quantitative reasoning, ethics and African context, human-advantage skills and enterprise, graded in every programme.

How the Core works

12 months paid co-op

Paid, assessed work-integrated learning before graduation, with no exemptions. 34 placement partners signed; 0 completed so far, and we publish that too.

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The refusal list

The programme categories we will not offer, why, and the capability we preserve instead. A university is defined by what it declines to sell.

What we will not teach

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Applications for the Class of 2030 close on August 31, 2026.

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