FAHAMU JUU YA CHUO CHA KILIMO TANZANIA SOKOINE

SUA’s academic business is guided by the university’s vision and missions as well as the Corporate Strategic plan (2005-2010), the latter that spells out plans in keeping with university’s core missions and functions as well as the need to remain competitive. The Vision of the university is “is to become a centre of excellence and a valued member of the global academic community in agriculture and other related fields, with emphasis on impacting practical skills, entrepreneurship, research and intergration of basic and applied knowledge in an environmentally friendly manner. ”. The vision is guided through the mission, which is “to Promote development through training, research, extension, provision of services to the public and private sector in an environmentally friendly manner.”.

SUA is offering 30 undergraduate and 45 postgraduate degree programmes. It also offers non-degree programmes including Certificates and Diplomas. The University has a total of 7228 student population of which 1553 are postgraduates, 5475 are undergraduate, 152 are diploma and 48 are certificates students. It has a total of 1343 employees, 503 are academic members of staff of whom 58% are PhD holders and 835 are administrative staff of whom 36% are female.  To date, SUA is the only university, amongst 34 universities and university colleges in Tanzania that offers degree programmes in the broad field of agriculture. On the other hand, MUCCoBS offers non-degree, Bachelor and postgraduate programmes in the disciplines of cooperative and business studies.

SUA’s main research objective is to provide leadership in basic and applied research in order to generate science evidence knowledge and innovations that respond to contemporary and emerging needs. SUA thus emphasizes that research becomes linked to development and societal issues. Research, outreach and consultancy services are driven by trained agricultural and natural resource manpower base that comprises 452 academic staff, out whom 50% have PhD qualifications. Research capacity at SUA is further enhanced through collaborative research projects, which are supported by more than 50 memoranda of understanding. Currently, there are a number of ongoing research projects.

For more information please contact:

The Vice-Chancellor
Sokoine University of Agriculture,
P.O. Box 3000 CHUO KIKUU,
Morogoro, Tanzania
Tel. +256 23 2603511-4,
Fax +255 23 2604573
Email: vc@suanet.ac.tz

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