School of ICT

Our School aims at producing competent and skillful graduates catering to the demands of the rewarding ICT job market in various industry sectors.

ICT is the backbone and an essential element of most businesses today. It provides impetus to the day-to-day business functions by allowing for better cross departmental or organizational collaboration and communication, more effective streamlining of business processes, better management of human and material resources, and better facilitation of human system interaction through the implementation of integrated, efficient, and reliable information systems.

More importantly, ICT literally opens up the access to a whole world of information, a fact that has fundamentally changed the way we live. ICT knowledge areas include computer software and hardware, networking, information management and security, database management systems, wireless communication, the Internet, artificial intelligence, and embedded electronic devices, just to name a few. Each of these knowledge areas has seen constant and revolutionary developments almost every day for the past few decades.

In fact, the ICT field will continue to make substantial progress in the foreseeable future. The prospects of a career in the ICT area are simply enormous given the heavy reliance of business and individual activities on ICT. In fact, ICT graduates can be employed in a wide range of industry sectors including software development, technical consulting, telecommunication, web design and development, banking and finance, manufacturing, biotechnology, healthcare, education civil service.

Expected Learning Outcome

ICT has been identified as a tool “to transform a subsistence economy into an information-rich, knowledge-based one, and accelerate economic growth”. The Government of Rwanda has the very broad objective of imparting quality education for ICT in Higher Learning Institutions in the country.

This will meet the challenging demands on computing manpower of all industries and government organizations in the country and in the surrounding regions, which need highly skilled professionals capable of finding solutions to problems in ICT that requires fast and reliable action. Computer Science being the basics for ICT, the rationale of the programme is, therefore, to offer a comprehensive foundation that permits graduates to adapt to changing technologies and new ideas.

At the end of the programme learners should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of :
- Mathematics and sciences relevant to computer science.
- The fundamental concepts, principles and theories of computing.
- Design and development of hardware and software at a specialist level.
- The principles of design and development including an awareness of standards of practice.
- The professional, legal and ethical responsibilities of a computer science
- The environmental and social impact of computer science activities
- Business and management techniques relevant to computer science
- Quality and benchmarks in computer software and software development

• Location: Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa
• Website: https://cst.ur.ac.rw/School-of-ICT