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Units

List of Colleges, School, Directorate, Institutes, Centres and Departments at Sokoine University of Agriculture

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

The college hosts more than 1800 students who are trained by 136 staff. It currently offers eight undergraduate programs, one post graduate diploma in education, two masters programs, and PhD (by Thesis) in the area of life sciences, physical sciences, environmental sciences, meteorology, hydrogeology, natural products, toxicology, phytochemistry, mathematics, statistics, bioinformatics, informatics, network science, computational sciences, cognitive and science teachers education.

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is determined to providing a vibrant, engaging, stimulating and supportive learning environment with a view of preparing students to think critically, work cooperatively, and solve problems effectively. The programmes offered by the College have been specially designed in terms of contents and teaching approaches to enable our current and prospective students cope with challenges in the changing world.

Development Studies

The function of the Institute was to instruct students and carry out research on issues and problems of development/underdevelopment. The Institute had also the mandate to address the three major development problems-poverty, ignorance and diseases, which were named by the Tanzanian government as closely related evils of development.

Wildlife Management

The department runs a field-based training programme aiming at equipping undergraduates with skills on wildlife ecology, wildlife management and environmental social-economic guiding principles.

The training mainly takes place at SUA campuses for lectures and lab practical’s. Field practical training take place in protected areas and other designated conservation and tourism stations suitable.

Communication and Marketing Department

The Department is answerable to the office of the Vice Chancellor who is the Chief Executive of the University, who has final say on what should be communicated with the advice by the in-charge of the Department. The location of the department, the office of the Vice Chancellor is correct for quick dissemination of information; avoid unnecessary distortion and such other information dissemination challenges.