Student Admissions Guide

Student Admissions Guide

The university sets policy guidelines for admitting applicants wishing to join its academic programmes leading to the following awards: certificates, ordinary, advanced, and postgraduate diplomas, undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees. The major purpose of such guidelines is to set basic quality standards for entrance into academic programmes as a prerequisite of the university’s Quality Assurance Policy.

There are two categories of minimum academic standards: general and specific. The former covers all courses that do not have certain prerequisites that require specific attention during admissions, and therefore, their minimum requirements are well spelt out in category one of the General minimum academic requirements. The latter has specific requirements that an applicant MUST fulfil to gain admission to a particular programme. The minimum for such programmes is also spelt out clearly in this Admission Policy Guide.

International applicants whose education systems in their mother countries differ from Uganda’s MUST have their documents first equated to Ugandan standards by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) or Uganda National Council for Higher Education (UNCHE). It is the applicant's responsibility to submit admissible documents.

It should be noted that IUIU does not apply a weighting system during the admissions exercise the way it is done in public universities. Instead, all subjects taken at the Advanced level of Education or the equivalent are considered essential, relevant, desirable and others following the applicant’s performance and the program applied for. The university considers the minimum standards of; 3 passes for a certificate, one principal pass 2 subsidiary passes for a diploma and two principal passes at an ‘A’ level for a degree. Postgraduate programmes are considered accordingly.