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| Motto | Knowledge and Service |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1987 |
| Vice-Chancellor | Imasiku Nyambe [1] |
Administrative staff | 1130 |
| Students | 15000 |
| Location | , 12°48′20″S28°14′25″E / 12.80556°S 28.24028°E |
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| Website | www |
The Copperbelt University is a public university in Kitwe, Zambia. It is the second largest public university in Zambia. The language of instruction at the university is English. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The Copperbelt University is a public university established through Act of Parliament No. 19 of 1987. It currently operates from five campuses: Riverside Main Campus along Jambo Drive, Parklands Campus, Ndola Campus, Kapasa Makasa Campus and TAZARA Campus. The TAZARA campus is currently offering only Railway, Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering. These campuses are located in suburban areas in the cities of Lusaka, Kitwe, Ndola and Chinsali in the Copperbelt and Muchinga Provinces of Zambia.[ citation needed ]
The Copperbelt University has the biggest school of engineering in the country, offering a variety of engineering fields as bachelor's degrees with honors. It is the first institution in Southern Africa to offer mechatronics, as an achievement.
The Copperbelt University has the biggest school of built environment, offering programs such as Architecture, Real Estate, Urban and Regional Planning and Quantity Surveying).[ citation needed ]
The university's core business is to provide teaching, learning, research, consultancy and public service. These are carried out through its ten faculties:
The Copperbelt University has about 15,900 students and produces an annual average of 1, 500 graduates who form a nucleus of experts in critical areas of national development. These include mining, banking, construction, environmental, agricultural, real estate, educational, medical, engineering and manufacturing sectors.[ citation needed ]
The Copperbelt University is a public university established through the Act of Parliament No. 19 of 1987. Prior to 1987, the university existed as a campus of the University of Zambia Federal System with two schools; namely: School of Business and Industrial Studies (SBIS) and School of Environmental Studies (SES). The campus was referred to as the University of Zambia at Ndola (UNZANDO) until 1 December 1987. As of 1 January 1989 the Zambia Institute of Technology (ZIT) was incorporated into the Copperbelt University to form the School of Technology. Since 1987, the university has significantly grown from only two faculties to ten by the end of 2013. The total number of students in 2017 was 11,900 and having had over 54,000 students in the past 25 years. At its first graduation ceremony in 1992, the university had only 100 students then graduating from the various disciplines but graduating average of 1,500 as at 2017.[ citation needed ]
In 2014, the School of Medicine received US$1 million in donation from the Council of Zambian Jewry of the African Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. [6]
Association of Commonwealth Universities; Association of African Universities; African Council for Distance Education; Southern African Regional Universities; signatory to the SADC Protocol on Higher Education.
This article is about the Transport in Zambia.
Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia in terms of size and population, with a population of 627,503, after the capital, Lusaka, and Kitwe, and the second largest in terms of infrastructure development after Lusaka. It is the industrial and commercial center of the Copperbelt, Zambia's copper-mining region, and capital of Copperbelt Province. It lies just 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border with DR Congo. It is also home to Zambia's first modern stadium, the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
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Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development and second largest city in terms of size and population in Zambia. With a population of 517,543 Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside Ndola and Lusaka. It has a complex of mines on its north-western and western edges.
Zambia Railways (ZR) is the national railway company of Zambia and one of the two major railway organisations in Zambia. The other system is the binational TAZARA Railway (TAZARA) that interconnects with the ZR at Kapiri Mposhi and provides a link to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam.
Lower education in Zambia is divided into three levels and these are namely: primary, junior secondary and upper secondary. Higher education in Zambia has improved in the recent years due to the increase of private universities and colleges. The biggest university is the public University of Zambia which is located in the capital city of Lusaka along the Great East Road and hosts a number of local and international students. The Copperbelt University is the second largest public university and is located in the Copperbelt province of Zambia in Kitwe, and the youngest public university is Mulungushi University, with its main campus 26 km north of Kabwe. There are many other smaller universities, both public and private including the following: Texila American University, Zambia Open University, European University Zambia Zambia Catholic University, Cavendish University, Zambia Adventist University, Northrise University, University of Lusaka, Lusaka Apex Medical University, Woodlands University College, Copperstone University College, University of Barotseland, University of Africa, Information and Communication University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Education, Chalimbana University, Rusangu University, Robert Makasa University, Zambia Centre of Accountancy Studies and there are various Health training Institutes offering Diplomas in clinical medicine.
Harare Polytechnic College, formerly Salisbury Polytechnic and commonly referred to as Harare Polytechnic, is a technical, public research university in Causeway, Harare. The university is known for its strength in science and engineering, and is one among a small group of technical schools or institutes of technology in Zimbabwe which are primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences. The school was founded on the British polytechnic model offering standard and higher diplomas and undergraduate degrees, unlike European and American institutions which often offer postgraduate degrees and a strong emphasis on research. At the outset, the focus of polytechnics was on STEM subjects with a special emphasis on engineering.
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Copperstone University is located in Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia. It is on the Ndola-Kitwe Dual Carriageway. It was founded in 2004.
The Zambia Forestry College (ZFC) is a government-run educational institution in Kitwe, Zambia, providing training in environmental sciences and natural resource management. The college is well known for its apiaries and training for beekeepers.
Mukuba University is a public university in Garneton (Itimpi), Kitwe, Zambia. The Mukuba University, formerly Copperbelt Secondary Teachers College (COSETCO), was established in 1974 by the Ministry of Education to train Teachers of Science for deployment in secondary schools around the country. Since its inception, COSETCO as an institution trained teachers of mathematics, natural sciences, and home economics.
Micheal Chilufya Sata Copperbelt University School of Medicine (MCSCBUSOM), also known as Copperbelt University Medical School is the school of medicine of Copperbelt University in Zambia. The medical school is the country's second public medical school, the other being the University of Zambia School of Medicine. The school provides medical education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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"Zambia : President Lungu commissions the construction of the 1.2 billion U.S dollar Lusaka-Ndola Dual Carriageway". Lusaka Times. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
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