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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.
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.
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.
Kigali lies in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. It is situated between Mount Kigali and Mount Jali, both of which have elevations of more than 1,800 m (5,906 ft) above sea level, while the lowest areas of the city have an altitude of 1,300 m (4,265 ft).
Mount Kigali or Mont Kigali in French, is a hill in Kigali City, Rwanda, [2] after which the city was named. Mount Kigali is located directly West of the city center in Nyarugenge District. The majority of Nyarugenge District is located on the slopes of Mount Kigali. The western slopes of Mount Kigali end in the valley of the river Nyabarongo.
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.
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 current curriculum for Bachelor of science degree in clinical medicine, (surgery) and community health has been derived from the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) version hence it is a crashed program of MBBS. It takes four and half years to train MBBS in India and four years in USA, UK, Cuba and other countries for ...