Student life
Two campuses, 38 student-led societies, two D1 sports teams, a 24-hour library, and a city that's one of the best places in East Africa to be twenty.
A day at TEAM
One day with Sharon, a BSc Software Engineering student — from the sunrise run to closing the library at 22:00. Scroll to walk through it.
Sharon meets the Athletics Society outside the SU at twenty to seven. Two coaches, six kilometres, no excuses. She's home and showered before her first lecture begins.
Dr. Sserunjogi runs the lecture like a workshop: forty minutes of theory, twenty minutes at the board solving the problem live, with students called up by name to defend their thinking.
Sharon's four-person studio team is three weeks out from the final review. Today's question — what does the false-positive rate look like on the partner bank's mobile-money traffic?
Twenty minutes of Q&A, three pairs of hands raised at once, and lunch from the SU canteen on the ground floor. The cohort's WhatsApp group lights up after.
Office hours are walk-in. Most weeks Sharon doesn't book — but when she does, the mentor opens her notes from last term to remind her what they agreed.
Five of them at the corner table by the window, problem-set printed and annotated, three laptops open, one whiteboard, one running pot of coffee. The librarian comes by at 21:50 with the closing announcement.
Last week she stayed until close every night. This week she's promised herself bed by eleven, three nights out of five. Wednesday begins in eight hours.
Clubs & societies
The 2025 East African inter-university debate champions. Open to all faculties.
Student-run shipping crew — three apps released to the Play Store in the last year.
Drama society — two main-stage productions per year at the Kampala National Theatre.
Both teams play in the FUBA university league. Home court — Kabaka Anjagala campus.
Tutoring partnerships with three primary schools in Mengo division.
Run by students from 17 countries — pan-African dinners, language exchanges, festivals.
In their words
The lecturers know my name. That doesn't sound like much until you've sat in a lecture hall of 400.”
I came from Khartoum two years ago. I now lead the International Council. The phrase 'second home' is overused but here it's earned.”
My capstone is being deployed in two health centres in Mbarara. They asked us to come back and run training in July.”
Housing
Roughly one in three of our students lives in TEAM-managed housing. The rest live within ten minutes of class, often with a TEAM-vetted homestay.
Indicative termly costs · 2026 / 27
On-campus, shared 2-person rooms · 224 beds.
On-campus, single en-suite rooms · 96 beds.
Six TEAM-vetted halls within 10 min of campus.
Available for first-year international students.
Living in Kampala
Both campuses are walking-distance to the city, but mobile-money-paid bodas keep everything else 10 minutes away.
From Mengo's rolex stands to specialty coffee at Endiro and the Acacia Mall food courts — eat for UGX 5,000 or UGX 50,000.
Bring a Saturday: Entebbe beaches, Jinja for the source of the Nile, Ssese islands for a long-weekend trip.
The Kampala student card gets you in cheap or free at the National Theatre, Goethe-Zentrum, and most festivals.
Wellness & support
Free, confidential counselling. An on-campus clinic. A 24-hour duty line for international students. None of this is an afterthought — it's how a university is supposed to work.
A four-person counselling team across both campuses, with same-week appointments guaranteed.
Staffed by two GPs and a nurse practitioner, Mon–Sat, and a partner referral to Mengo Hospital.
24-hour line for international students — visas, hospital escort, family emergency support.