University of Zimbabwe

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University of Zimbabwe
Other name
UZ
Former names
University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
University College of Rhodesia
University of Rhodesia
University of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979)
MottoEducating to Change Lives
TypePublic
Established1952
ChancellorEmmerson Mnagagwa
(ex officio as President of Zimbabwe)[1]
Vice-ChancellorPaul Mapfumo
Academic staff
140 professors,[2] 545 lecturers, 155 teaching and research assistants (2018)[3]
Undergraduates17,718
Postgraduates2,681
Location
Harare
,
Zimbabwe
CampusSuburban
Websitewww.uz.ac.zw

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is a public university in Harare, Zimbabwe. It opened in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was initially affiliated with the University of London. It was later renamed the University of Rhodesia, and adopted its present name upon Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. UZ is the oldest university in Zimbabwe.

The university has eleven faculties (with faculties of Agriculture Environment and Food Systems, Arts and Humanities, Business Management Sciences and Economics, Computer Engineering Informatics and Communications, Education, Engineering and Built Environment, Law, Science, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Veterinary Sciences and Medicine and Health Sciences) offering a wide variety of degree programmes and many specialist research centres and institutes. The university is accredited through the National Council for Higher Education, under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education. English is the language of instruction. The university has faced criticism for awarding fraudulent degrees to members of the Robert Mugabe regime, most notably First Lady Grace Mugabe.[4][5][6][7]

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  2. ^ "Academic Excellence Rewarded". University of Zimbabwe. Archived from the original on 21 May 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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  4. ^ Mambo, Elias (19 September 2014). "Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe's PhD Scandal Torches Storm" – via AllAfrica.
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