Message from Vice Chancellor

CUHAS is a place where students are educated to become responsible, caring professionals and law-abiding citizens, during and after training. All students should expect this as part and parcel of your everyday professional upbringing here, as you diligently work to attain good grades.
We are committed to continue to recruit the much-needed qualified faculty and support staff to increase our capacity in quality service delivery. Furthermore, we shall maintain our compliance to regulatory standards as benchmarks, while differentiating ourselves by providing a modern, efficient and friendly learning environment, and retaining the learning experience that is unique to Bugando.
Discipline, Diligence and Excellence should be aspirational qualities for every student who chooses to study at CUHAS and a benchmark for the rest of us.
We hope that the time you spend CUHAS whether for training, research, consultancy or service, will be a productive, memorable and a worthwhile investment in your career, networks and life in general.

OVERVIEW OF CUHAS

The Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences - Bugando (CUHAS-BUGANDO) is located at Bugando Hill, within the Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) premises in Mwanza. Our core business is training, research and consultancy services. We train health professionals in the fields of Medicine, Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing and Public Health through our Diploma, Bachelor, Masters and PhD programmes. Our students include local and international/foreign students from all walks of life. We work in close partnership with the Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in the training of our students and in offering services that address the challenges within the Lake Zone, thus contributing to the Health Sector in a purposeful and meaningful way.

THE HISTORY OF CUHAS

CUHAS-Bugando, as a Constituent University College of SAUT, became operational in September 2003. It was granted a Certificate of Interim Authority (CIA) on the 28th March 2002 and a Certificate of Provisional Registration (CPR) on 27th March 2003. By 2005 the College was firmly established and accorded full registration status by the Tanzania Commission of Universities (TCU). The Commission at its 53rd meetingapproved a request from SAUT to transform the College to a full-fledged university and granted CUHAS-Bugando a Certificate of Full Registration. At its inception it was envisaged that it would be organized in faculties, institutes and directorates. In 2009/2010 it decided to go into a school mode and therefore established four schools: The Weill Bugando School of Medicine (which replaces the Faculty of Medicine), A School of Pharmacy, the Archbishop Anthony Mayala School of Nursing, and a School of Public Health. The new Schools had their first intake in the Academic Year 2010/2011.The Institute of Allied Health Sciences was established within the Bugando University of Health Sciences in 2006/2007.