The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is a public university in

Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...

, Tanzania. It was established in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London. The university became an affiliate of the University of East Africa (UEA) in 1963, shortly after Tanzania gained its independence from the United Kingdom. In 1970, UEA split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Dar es Salaam.

Rankings

In 2012, the University Ranking by Academic Performance Center ranked the University of Dar es Salaam as the 1,618th best university in the world (out of 2,000 ranked universities). In 2013, AcademyRank ranked the university as the 2,965th best university worldwide (out of 9,803 ranked universities) but the best of the 16 ranked in Tanzania, with the

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in second place. In 2012, the Scimago Institutions Rankings placed the university in 3,021st place worldwide (out of 3,290 ranked institutions), 57th in Africa, and second in Tanzania behind the

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. This ranking is based on the total number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in the Scopus database by Elsevier. Based solely on the university's "excellence rate", the university was ranked 16th out of 62 universities in Africa in 2011. This rate "indicates which percentage of an institution's scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of high quality output of research institutions". In July 2012, Webometrics ranked the university as the 1,977th best university worldwide based on its web presence (an assessment of the scholarly contents, visibility, and impact of the university on the web) but the best in Tanzania, with the

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far behind in second place.

Campuses

The university has five campuses in and around the city of Dar es Salaam and operates academically through ten faculties, some of which are exclusive to specific campuses. For example, the College of Engineering and Technology campus houses the faculties of mechanical and chemical engineering, electrical and computer systems engineering, and civil engineering and the built environment. The faculty of humanities and social sciences is active in the

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campus and also in the Dar es Salaam University College of Education. The university, as of 2015, started offering a Doctor of Medicine program, which did not exist since its medical college, the Muhimbili College of Health Sciences (MUCHS), became a full-fledged university in 2007. The newly established college started as the University of Dar es Salaam School of Health Sciences (SOHS) at the Mlimani campus, then in 2017 relocated to Mbeya region as Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences (MCHAS) within the grounds of Mbeya zonal referral hospital. The main campus, called Mlimani (meaning "on the hill" in

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), is located 13 kilometres west of

city centre and is home to the basic faculties of education, arts and social science, and science. In addition, four specialist faculties – informatics and virtual education, law, commerce and management, and aquatic science and technology – have been established there. The Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication provides the university with its fifth campus. The Nkrumah Hall, a building on the Mlimani campus, is featured on the back of the Tanzanian 500 shilling bill.

Notable alumni

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, Ugandan diplomat *

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, prime minister of Tanzania, November 2015 – present * Zakia Meghji, former Minister of Finance Tanzania * John Garang, former Vice President of

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, Namibian diplomat * Laurent-Désiré Kabila, former President of

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* Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank * Eriya Kategaya, former First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda * Jakaya Kikwete, former President of Tanzania *

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, former Prime Minister of Tanzania * John Magufuli, former President of Tanzania *

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, Tanzanian Foreign Minister * Asha-Rose Migiro, former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN * Joyce Ndalichako Minister of Education, Vocational training and Technology, Former Executive Secretary of NECTA *

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, former President of the

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* Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda * Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya *

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, former Prime Minister of Tanzania *

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, researcher, academician and lecturer at

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* Juma Ngasongwa, former Tanzanian Trade Minister *

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, Member of parliament for CHADEMA. * Joseph Warioba, former Vice President and Prime Minister of Tanzania * Zitto Kabwe,

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leader *

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, actress, District Commissioner of

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, Secretary General of the Civic United Front * Tundu Lissu, Tanzanian politician and former president Tanzania Law Society *

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, Tanzanian Engineer, educationist and former Vice Chancellor of

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, Member of parliament for CHADEMA.

Notable faculty

* Giovanni Arrighi, Lecturer in Economics from 1967 to 1969 *

Molly Mahood Molly Maureen Mahood (17 June 1919 – 14 February 2017) was a British literary scholar, whose interests ranged from Shakespeare to postcolonial African literature. She taught at St Hugh's College, Oxford (1947–1954), the University of Ibadan ...

, Professor of English from 1954 to 1963 *

Milton Santos Milton Almeida dos Santos (May 3, 1926 – June 24, 2001) was a Brazilian geographer and geography scholar who had a degree in law. He became known for his pioneering works in several branches of geography, notably urban development in developing ...

, Professor of Geography from 1974 to 1976 * Walter Rodney, Guyanese scholar and politician, and author of the classic book ''How Europe Underdeveloped Africa''. The late Rodney held a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the age of 24. * Yash Tandon, former head of the South Centre (previously, the South Commission).

Gallery

File:Nkrumah Hall, University of Dar es Salaam.jpg, The interior of the Nkrumah Hall at the university of Dar es Salaam. File:Zanzibar 2012 06 06 4220 (7592226526).jpg, The Institute of Marine Sciences based in the island of Zanzibar.

References

External links

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Campus Map
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