Full List of Public Universities in Tanzania by 2024/2025, Full list of registered and accredited public Universities in Tanzania by TCU.
The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) is a body corporate established on the 1st July 2005, under the Universities Act, Cap. 346 of the Laws of Tanzania with the mandate to recognise, approve, register and accredit Universities operating in Tanzania, and local or foreign University level programmes being offered by registered higher education institutions.
It also coordinates the proper functioning of all universities in Tanzania to foster a harmonised higher education system in the country.
Functions of TCU can be clustered into three major areas:
1. Regulatory Function: To conduct regular and impromptu periodic evaluation of universities, their systems, and programmes so as to regulate the quality assurance systems at new and established universities and in the process, institutions are registered and accredited to operate in Tanzania.
Also, TCU validates programmes to ensure their credibility and evaluates university awards attained from local and foreign institutions for use in Tanzania.
2. Advisory Function: To advise the government and the public on matters related to university education in Tanzania as well as international issues pertaining to higher education, including advice on programme and policy formulation and other best practices.
3. Supportive Function: To ensure the orderly conduct of university operations and management adherence to set standards and benchmarks by providing support to universities in terms of coordinating the admission of students, offering training and other sensitisation interventions in key areas such as quality assurance, university leadership and management, entrepreneurial skills and gender mainstreaming and fundraising and resources mobilisation.
Public universities includes all universities owned by government of United Republic of Tanzania.
1 University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM)
2 Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
3 Open University of Tanzania (OUT)
4 State University of Zanzibar (SUZA)
5 Mzumbe University (MU)
6 Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST)
7 Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
8 Ardhi University (ARU)
9 University of Dodoma (UDOM)
10 Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST)
11 Moshi Cooperative University (MoCU)
12 Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology (MJNUAT)
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