What Makerere University's Website Offers International Students and Visitors

Updated

The mak.ac.ug site gives international audiences a single "Content Discovery" menu that routes you by role — choose International Students for admission, fees, and campus-life guidance, or Visitor for general access information. Around that menu sit scholarship and research-opportunity listings and a "Getting in Touch" entry for follow-up questions. Everything below is drawn from the site's own navigation and news listings; specific deadlines, fees, and eligibility rules are not published on the pages described here, so confirm them through the contact route before acting.

Start with the role-based Content Discovery menu

The homepage presents a dropdown-style selector built around the sentence "I am a/an…", followed by a list of audience categories. The categories most relevant to people outside Uganda are:

Selection What it points to
International Students Information aimed at students joining from outside Uganda
Prospective Student How to join or apply, admission, courses and programs
Visitor General visiting information
Research @ Mak / Research Opportunities Research activity and openings
Scholarships Funding listings
Getting in Touch Contact routes for further inquiries
Fees & Payment structure Cost structure by category
Student Housing / Life at Campus Accommodation and campus life

The site describes this list as "not a comprehensive list" but as the most-requested information. If your question isn't covered, the page invites you to "Let us know" — use that link rather than guessing.

How to use it in practice

  1. Open mak.ac.ug.
  2. Find the "I am a/an…" selector in the Content Discovery section.
  3. Pick International Students if you are applying or enrolled from abroad; pick Visitor if you are attending an event, visiting a partner department, or planning a short stay.
  4. Follow the resulting links; where a topic spans roles (for example fees), cross-check the Fees & Payment structure entry.

Expected result: you land on pages written for your status instead of generic university pages. Common snag: the selector is a discovery aid, not a search engine — if a term doesn't appear, go to Getting in Touch.

Scholarships and research opportunities

Two entries matter for international applicants and visiting scholars:

  • Scholarships — the site lists scholarship information as a discovery category. It does not, on the pages described, state amounts, eligibility, or deadlines; treat the listing as a pointer and verify details with the relevant office.
  • Research Opportunities and Research @ Mak — these cover research activity at the university. The news feed shows international collaboration in practice, for example a reported partnership discussion between Makerere and Xiangtan University on chemical engineering, and a hosted EU–Uganda Research and Study Fair. Such items are useful for identifying active international links, but they are news stories, not application instructions.

For a concrete task — say, finding whether a visiting researcher can join a lab — start at Research Opportunities, then use Getting in Touch to ask the specific department.

Contact and follow-up

Getting in Touch is the site's designated route for questions the discovery menu doesn't answer. The homepage also offers Join, Visit, and Give actions, and a newsletter subscription form at mak.ac.ug/forms/subscribe-our-newsletter if you want campus news and event notices (including hybrid events such as the MURBS Annual General Meeting) delivered to you.

What the site does not settle for you

The pages described do not publish tuition figures, visa guidance, English-language requirements, or application deadlines. Those are exactly the details international applicants need, so plan to confirm them directly rather than relying on the navigation labels. Use the site to find the right office and the right category, then ask that office for the binding numbers and dates.