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The university was founded in 2010 by Simon Gicharu, a former teacher, as a campus of Mount Kenya University. [1] It was renamed as Mount Kigali University in 2023 after receiving a Charter [2] from the Higher Education Council of Rwanda. The university is named after Mount Kigali, a 1,853 metres (6,079 ft) hill in the west of Kigali city.
Mount Kenya University (MKU) is a private, multi-campus university in the municipal town of Thika, Kenya. It was established by Prof. Simon N. Gicharu and has become one of the most significant private universities in Kenya. [2] MKU has a student population of 52,000 as of September 2015. [3] MKU is chartered and ISO 9001:2015 certified.
African Leadership University (ALU) Akilah Institute for Women, Kigali (AIWK) [8] East African University Rwanda. Carnegie Mellon University Rwanda (CMUR) [9] Catholic Institute of Kabgayi (ICK) [10] Catholic University of Rwanda (CUR) [11] Christian University of Rwanda (CHUR). [12] Closed in 2020 by Government of Rwanda.
Website. www .kigalicity .gov .rw. Kigali ( Kinyarwanda pronunciation: [ci.ɡɑ́.ɾi]) is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali is a relatively new city.
Spouse. 1. Simon Gicharu is an educationalist and founder of Mount Kenya University, which is East and Central Africa’s largest private university. He is also the founder of Mount Kigali University in Rwanda. He was born in 1964 in Gathiruini village, Kiambu County, Kenya. He is the first in a family of seven.
The Karisoke Research Center is a research institute in Rwanda 's Volcanoes National Park. It was founded by Dian Fossey on 24 September 1967 to study endangered mountain gorillas. Fossey located the camp in Rwanda's Virunga volcanic mountain range, between Mount Karisimbi and Mount Bisoke, and named it by combining the names of the two mountains.
In 1997-1998 Rwanda had a total of 5,571 students enrolled in higher education. Today this stands at 26,796, of which 39 percent are female. Throughout the higher education system, some hundred PhDs are held, the bulk of them at NUR. Areas of research include agriculture, livestock, and the training of farm managers.
The National University of Rwanda ( NUR; Kinyarwanda: Kaminuza nkuru y’u Rwanda, French: Université nationale du Rwanda, UNR) was the largest university in Rwanda. It was located at 2°36′58″S 29°44′34″E in the city of Butare and was established in 1963 by the government in cooperation with the Congregation of the Dominicans from ...