The University of Dar es Salaam is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city and former capital. The university was formed in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London. The ua gained its independence from the United Kingdom. In 1970, UEA split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Dar es Salaam
ACADEMIC RANKINGS
In 2012, the University Ranking by Academic Performance Center ranked the University of Dar es Salaam as the 1,618th best university in the world (out of 2,000 ranked universities).In 2012, AcademyRank.com ranked the university as the 2,968th best university worldwide (out of 9,805 ranked universities) but the best of the 16 ranked in Tanzania, with the Sokoine University of Agriculture in second place.
In 2012, the Scimago Institutions Rankings placed the university in 3,021st place worldwide (out of 3,290 ranked institutions), 57th in Africa, and second in Tanzania behind the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.
This ranking is based on the total number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in the Scopus database by Elsevier.[3] Based solely on the university's "excellence rate", the university was ranked 16th out of 62 universities in Africa in 2011.
This rate "indicates which percentage of an institution's scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of high quality output of research institutions".
In July 2012, Webometrics ranked the university as the 1,977th best university worldwide based on its web presence (an assessment of the scholarly contents, visibility, and impact of the university on the web) but the best in Tanzania, with the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University far behind in second place.
HER CAMPUSES
The university has five campuses in and around the city of Dar es Salaam and operates academically through ten faculties, some of which are exclusive to specific campuses.
For example, the College of Engineering and Technology campus houses the faculties of mechanical and chemical engineering, electrical, and civil engineering and the built environment.
Also the Collage of Information and Communication Technology that offer COMPUTER SYSTEM ENGINEERING and other related courses!
The faculty of humanities and social sciences is active in the Mkwawa University College of Education campus and also in the Dar es Salaam University College of Education.
The main campus, called Mlimani (meaning "on the hill" in Swahili), is located 13 kilometers west of Dar es Salaam city center and is home to the basic faculties of education, arts and social science, and science. In addition, four specialist faculties – informatics and virtual education, law, commerce and management, and aquatic science and technology – have been established there.
The Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication provides the university with its fifth campus.
Nkrumah Hall, a building on the Mlimani campus, is featured on the back of the Tanzanian 500 shilling bill.
NOTABLE ALUMNI
1.Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania2.Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
3.Laurent-Désiré Kabila, former President of Democratic Republic of the Congo
4.John Garang, former Vice President of Sudan
5.Joseph Obgeb Jimmy, Namibian diplomat
6.Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, former Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
7.Edward Lowassa, former Prime Minister of Tanzania
8.Bernard Membe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
9.Herbert James Mntangi, Tanzanian Member of Parliament
10.Gertrude Mongella, President of the Pan-African Parliament
11.Augustine P. Mahiga, Tanzanian Ambassador to the United Nations
12.Patricia McFadden, Swazi author, and African radical feminist
13.Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and politician
14.Francis K. Butagira, Ugandan Ambassador to the United Nations
15.Juma Ngasongwa, Tanzanian Member of Parliament
16.Eriya Kategaya, First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda
17.U. Aswathanarayana, Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India
......AND TO MENTION A FEW!!!
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