Kyambogo University

Kyambogo University (KYU) is a Ugandan public university. It is one of the country's eight public universities and degree-granting institutions. The Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo (UPK), the Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo (ITEK), and the Uganda National Institute of Special Education merged to form Kyambogo University in 2003, as part of the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001. (UNISE).

Makerere College (now Makerere University) separated its trade and technical courses in 1928 to form the new Kampala Technical School. The school was relocated to Nakawa and renamed Kampala Technical Institute. That school was relocated to Kyambogo in 1958, renamed Uganda Technical College, and then renamed Uganda Polytechnic, Kyambogo.

ITEK began in 1948 as a government teacher training college in Nyakasura, Kabarole District. It moved to Kyambogo Hill as a national teachers' college in 1954 and was renamed ITEK by statute of parliament in 1989.

UNISE was affiliated with the Department of Special Education at Makerere University's faculty of education before becoming an autonomous institution by Act of Parliament in 1998.

The university campus is located on Kyambogo Hill, approximately 8 kilometers (5 miles) by road east of Kampala's central business district, Uganda's capital city. The university's geographical coordinates are: 0°21'00.0"N, 32°37'48.0"E. (Latitude:0.350000; Longitude:32.630000).

Address: PO Box 1, Kyambogo Hill Campus, Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

Tel: +256 (414) 286 237

Fax: +256 (414) 220 464

Website: https://kyu.ac.ug/