1. THE GOOD AND BAD OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
Vision
To be the leading institution for academic excellence and innovations in Africa.
Mission
To provide innovative teaching, learning, research and services responsive to National and Global needs.
Prepared by Ochola Sam Oryem

2. Background Makerere university was started in 1922.
It has over students
Public university
It has 9 colleges
It has 1 school
The current VC is Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe
It has 9 Halls of residence
Makerere main building

3. Reading facilities The good
Makerere University has the biggest library in the country with a sitting capacity of students.
The library is well stocked with reading materials and computers for research.
It is well furnished with modern furniture convenience for studies.
Front view of the Library
Interior of the library

4. Health facilities The good
The University hospital provides all health services to all registered students to ensure good health of the students.
Among the services the offer include;
Testing and Counselling
All Laboratory tests
Safe male circumcision
Antenatal care
optical/vision services
24/7 ambulance services
etc.
University hospital PHOTO BU URN

5. Varieties of Games & Sports
The good
Swimming pool
Makerere university has very many sporting and gaming activities to chose from by students.
Chess Society
Wood ball

6. Dilapidated halls of residence
The Bad
Halls of residence at Makerere University are dilapidated and rotten to the core.
The toilets needs renovations
Sewages behinds halls of residence stings
Rotten ceiling board
Taps are broken
This is not a good environment for a healthy living.
The University has lost students to typhoid something that can be attributed to poor sanitations in the halls of residences
Rotten Toilet and Ceiling

7. Some of the reasons for the endemic is needs for marks.
Sexual harassment
The Bad
Sexual harassment is a vice that has survived in the largest and oldest institution of higher learning, Makerere.
Sexual harassment among the students themselves and even the staffs and lectures do harass the students
Some of the reasons for the endemic is needs for marks.
Academic staff having sex in office

8. Students get injured, others even lost their lives.
Strikes
The Bad
Strikes at Makerere University has become a culture that a semester hardly survives strikes.
Students get injured, others even lost their lives.
The university has failed to find amicable way of solving wrangles and disagreement with students

9. Insecurity
The Bad
Makerere University has thousands of porous entrances to the university.
There is no perimeter wall that can keep the students safe.
Anybody can enter and exit the university from anywhere and anyhow
Perimeter wall being constructed to reduce insecurity

10. Rich History Foundation The Good
The University Estate is spread over three campuses. The 350 acre Main campus is located on Makerere Hill, 5 km from the city centre.
The 45 acre College of Health Sciences- CHS (Formerly Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health) is located on Mulago Hill adjacent to the National Referral Hospital – 2 km from the Main Campus.
The Agricultural Research Institute, Kabanyolo is located 17kms North of Kampala.
The University Estate also includes, a 350 acre Buyana Stock Farm – under the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and BioSecurity - CoVAB (Formerly Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) located 60kms along the Kampala -Masaka highway. Kasangati Health Centre- Linked to the School of Public Health - CHS, Makerere University Biological Field Station under the School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - CAES (Formerly Institute of Environment and Natural Resource-MUIENR) and The Budongo Conservation Field Stationunder the School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences- CAES (Formerly Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation).
Attached to the School of Distance and Lifelong Learning, College of Education and External Studies - CEES (Formerly Institute of Adult and Continuing Education - IACE) are 9 adult education and extramural centres.
The University also has residential housing estates located in the outskirts of Kampala namely Kololo, Katalemwa, Makindye, Makerere North and Bwaise.
The Good
Foundation
Established in 1922 as a technical college, Makerere University was affiliated to the University of London until 1963 when it became one of the three constituent colleges of the University of East Africa. It became an independent University in 1970 by Act of Parliament. This status continued until 2001 when the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act was enacted