University of Dar es Salaam
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Former names | University College, Dar es Salaam |
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Motto | Hekima ni Uhuru (Swahili) |
Motto in English | Wisdom is Freedom |
Type | Public |
Established | 1970 |
Vice-Chancellor | William Anangisye[1] |
Academic staff | 1,045 |
Administrative staff | 1,023 |
Students | 19,650 |
Undergraduates | 17,098 |
Postgraduates | 2,552 |
Location |
Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Coordinates: 6°46′50″S 39°12′12″E / 6.78056°S 39.20333°E |
Campus | Urban |
Affiliations | AAU, ACU, IAU |
Website | University Website |
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The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is a public university in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.[2] It was established in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London. The university became an affiliate of the University of East Africa (UEA) in 1963, shortly after Tanzania gained its independence from the United Kingdom. In 1970, UEA split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Dar es Salaam.[3]
Rankings
In 2012, the University Ranking by Academic Performance Center ranked the University of Dar es Salaam as the 1,618th best university in the world (out of 2,000 ranked universities).[4]
In 2013, AcademyRank ranked the university as the 2,965th best university worldwide (out of 9,803 ranked universities) but the best of the 16 ranked in Tanzania, with the Sokoine University of Agriculture in second place.
In 2012, the Scimago Institutions Rankings placed the university in 3,021st place worldwide (out of 3,290 ranked institutions), 57th in Africa, and second in Tanzania behind the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. This ranking is based on the total number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in the Scopus database by Elsevier.[5] Based solely on the university's "excellence rate", the university was ranked 16th out of 62 universities in Africa in 2011. This rate "indicates which percentage of an institution's scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of high quality output of research institutions".[6]
In July 2012, Webometrics ranked the university as the 1,977th best university worldwide based on its web presence (an assessment of the scholarly contents, visibility, and impact of the university on the web) but the best in Tanzania, with the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University far behind in second place.[7]
Campuses
The university has five campuses in and around the city of Dar es Salaam and operates academically through ten faculties, some of which are exclusive to specific campuses. For example, the College of Engineering and Technology campus houses the faculties of mechanical and chemical engineering, electrical and computer systems engineering, and civil engineering and the built environment. The faculty of humanities and social sciences is active in the Mkwawa University College of Education campus and also in the Dar es Salaam University College of Education. The university as of 2015 started offering a Doctor of Medicine program which did not exist since it's medical college the Muhimbili college of Health Sciences(MUCHS) became a full-fledged university in 2007. The newly established college started as the university of Dar es salaam School of Health Sciences(SOHS) at the Mlimani campus,then in 2017 relocated to Mbeya region as Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences(MCHAS) within the grounds of Mbeya zonal referral hospital.
The main campus, called Mlimani (meaning "on the hill" in Swahili), is located 13 kilometers west of Dar es Salaam city center and is home to the basic faculties of education, arts and social science, and science. In addition, four specialist faculties – informatics and virtual education, law, commerce and management, and aquatic science and technology – have been established there. The Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication provides the university with its fifth campus.[8]
The Nkrumah Hall, a building on the Mlimani campus, is featured on the back of the Tanzanian 500 shilling bill.
Notable alumni
- Francis K. Butagira, Ugandan diplomat
- Majaliwa Kassim Majaliwa, prime minister of Tanzania, November 2015 – present
- Zakia Meghji, former Minister of Finance Tanzania
- John Garang, former Vice President of Sudan
- Joseph Obgeb Jimmy, Namibian diplomat
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila, former President of DRC
- Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank
- Eriya Kategaya, former First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda
- Jakaya Kikwete, former President of Tanzania
- Edward Lowassa, former Prime Minister of Tanzania
- John Magufuli, President of Tanzania
- Patricia McFadden, Swazi author, and African radical feminist
- Bernard Membe, Tanzanian Foreign Minister
- Asha-Rose Migiro, former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN
- Joyce Ndalichako Minister of Education,Vocational training and Technology,Former Executive Secretary of NECTA
- Gertrude Mongella, former President of the Pan-African Parliament
- Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
- Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
- Mizengo Pinda, former Prime Minister of Tanzania
- Juma Ngasongwa,former Tanzanian Trade Minister
- Halima Mdee,Member of parliament
- Joseph Warioba, former Vice President and Prime Minister of Tanzania
- Zitto Kabwe, ACT Wazalendo leader
- Jokate Mwegelo, actress, District Commissioner
- Seif Sharif Hamad Secretary General of the Civic United Front
- Tundu Lissu Tanzanian politician and the president Tanzania Law Society
- Maisam Pyarali Scientist at CERN, specializing in solar research and cooling systems[9]
Notable faculty
- Molly Mahood, Professor of English from 1954 to 1963
- Walter Rodney Guyanese scholar and politician, and author of the classic book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. The late Rodney held a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the age of 24.
- Yash Tandon. He holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (1961). He completed his PhD in international relations, again at the London School of Economics, in 1969. Tandon is a former head of the South Centre (previously, the South Commission)
Gallery
- The interior of the Nkrumah Hall at the university of Dar es Salaam.
- The Institute of Marine Sciences based in the island of Zanzibar.
- Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
References
- ↑ John Namkwahe (December 5, 2017). "UDSM gets new Vice Chancellor as Prof Mukandala retires". The Citizen. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
President John Magufuli has appointed Prof William Anangisye into the position of Vice Chancellor for the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM).
- ↑ "Register of Universities" (PDF). Tanzania Commission for Universities. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
- ↑ "Welcome to the University of Dar es Salaam - Background". University of Dar es Salaam. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012.
- ↑ "URAP - University Ranking by Academic Performance". urapcenter.org.
- ↑ "SIR World Report 2012: World Ranking" (PDF). Scimago Institutions Rankings. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2013.
- ↑ "SIR World Report 2011:: Africa Supplement" (PDF). Scimago Institutions Rankings. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2013.
- ↑ Tanzania, United Republic of, Ranking Web of Universities, Webometrics
- ↑ "University of Dar es Salaam". sarua.org.
- ↑ https://cds.cern.ch/record/2280981/files/NMS%2717%20Maisam%20Pyarali%20Report.pdf