page_title: Makerere University
section_title: University
hierarchical_section_title: Makerere University / History / University
caption_attribution_description: English: Makerere University, College of Natural sciences, Chemistry Department, Kampala Uganda
context_page_description: Makerere University, Kampala is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of nine colleges and one school offering programmes for about 36,000 undergraduates and 4,000 postgraduates.
  U.S. News & World Report has ranked Makerere University as the eighth best university in Africa and the 569th best university worldwide. In the 2020 U.S. News & World Report ranking, Makerere is the highest-ranked university in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016 ranked it as the fourth best university in Africa.
  Makerere University was alma mater to many post-independence African leaders, including Ugandan president Milton Obote and Tanzanian presidents Julius Nyerere and Benjamin Mkapa. The former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, and Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki are also Makerere alumni.
context_section_description: In 1943, the British Protectorate government proposed the university, which led to a controversial struggle.  It was described as "a plot to steal African soil for European settlement," by the Bataka Party.  In response to this campaign, there was rioting in the capital of Kampala.
  In 1949 Makerere College was granted university status and its name became Makerere College, University of East Africa.  In the same year, the Bataka Party had been banned by the British Protectorate government, because of acts of riot and arson committed after a Bataka protest gathering.
caption: Department of Chemistry, CONAS 2018; Taken by: Gyagenda Marvin Paul
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