Royal Open University

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Royal Open University is the first Pan African fully Online Higher Institution of Learning in Uganda which is Internationally accredited. ROU helps high school graduates overcome financial, geographic, political, and personal constraints keeping them from university studies. UNESCO estimates that by the year 2025, there will be nearly 100 million young people unable to find seats in traditional universities. ROU believes that access to higher education is a basic right which promotes world peace and global economic development; and it is committed to providing those young people a quality higher education. The institution is modeled to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. 

 

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September

Other Intakes:

January & May

Non-Credit Programmes:

Anytime of the Year

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