Makerere University Business School (MUBS) has turned away a directive from Makerere University authorities to hike postgraduate tuition fees.
MUBS is an affiliate of Makerere University and had been instructed to increase the fees beginning the next academic year.
The academic registrar Alfred Masikye Namoah, on March 21, 2018, wrote and instructed MUBS principal, Prof.Wasswa Balunywa that beginning the year 2018-2019 all tuition fees for Master and PHD programs be revised and charged not less than five million and seven million shillings respectively annually.
“This is to request you to revise the fees to be in line with the Makerere University Council and forward to my office the revised fees. Programmes similar to those offered by Makerere main campus should charge the same fees as has been the case, Namoah’s letter reads in part.
“This should be done as soon as possible and in any case, not later than Monday March 26.”
In response, the MUBS council led by Prof.Venansius Baryamureba wrote rejecting the directive.
“Increase of tuition fees is a policy matter and the Universities other tertiary institutions act 2001 empowers councils of public universities or tertiary institutions to fix scales of fees and boarding charges and in this case MUBS fixes the fees for our own institution,”Baryamureeba’s letter dated April 3 says.
Adding that, ““Whereas MUBS is a public tertiary institution by law affiliated to Makerere University, it is financially and administratively autonomous of the university (Makerere.”
