Career and Skills Development Centre
The MUBS Career & Skills Development Centre was established in 2004 to offer Career Support Services to MUBS Prospective students, continuing students, staff and the external community. The Centre enables students envision their Career through Career awareness programmes. This is an outreach Unit that exposes students to a wide range of available and future professions, it equips students with employability skills and enable them to know the career prospects of MUBS programmes.
The Centre also has a guest lecture scheme that features high profile individuals from different professions in the business world. This is intended to enable students take an informed decision on the area of specialization.
Phone: +256701101269/+256701055970 Email: career@mubs.ac.ug Website:www.career.mubs.ac.ug.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Incubation Centre
The MUBS Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Incubation Centre was established in 1998 as an outreach unit to link the school with the private, public and NGO sectors using different approaches.
At the establishment, it was known as the Small B u s i n e s s Development Centre that supported businesses through training and business clinics. It grew over time and in 2005 it became the Entrepreneurship Centre supporting not just small business development but the growth of entrepreneurship. About four years ago, the African Development Bank supported the establishment of incubation centres at public universities in Uganda and MUBS Entrepreneurship Centre was transformed into the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Incubation Center. Its five focus areas include business incubation, training, provision and dissemination of information, research and consultancy.
The centre believes that individuals have unique ideas and need support to turn them into businesses. These individuals are guided through training, participate in enterprise challenges and then assigned mentors and coaches to develop the business ideas.
The Centre has partnered with numerous organizations and one of them is Stanbic Bank under the Stanbic Bank Business Incubator to provide training to different entrepreneurs. Other organizations that the Centre has partnered with include; NSSF, DFCU Bank, Orient Bank, Private Sector Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, Innovation Hub among others.
Knowledge for Development Centre
Knowledge is an essential resource and an indispensable prerequisite for the development of societies all over the world. The MUBS Knowledge for Development Centre is established to advance, create, drive and implement the Agenda Knowledge for Development for better knowledge sharing and collaboration that will achieve happy knowledge citizens, knowledge driven competitive organisations and advance Ugandan knowledge partnership for Development.
In line with the vision of MUBS “The benchmark for Business and Management Education, Research and Training in the Region”, The Centre advances knowledge polices and strategies for different sectors, undertakes and strengthen education, trans-disciplinary research and innovation in the field of knowledge for development, p r o m o t e p r o f e s s i o n a l k n o w l e d g e management in organisations and in multis t a k e h o l d e r p a r t n e r s h i p s and improving c o m p e t e n c e s and capabilities in knowledge m a n a g e m e n t t h r o u g h c o n f e r e n c e s , d i f f e r e n t training programs, webinars, partner engagements, and other events.
E-Learning Centre
The E-Learning Centre started as a project in 2013 and was formalized as a Centre in 2016. The intention was to provide effective integration of appropriate technologies and services to strengthen and enhance the teaching and learning missions of the school, on campus, between campuses and online. For any information please contact us on Phone: +256-41223314 E-mail:elearning@mubs.ac.ug
Disability Resource and Learning Centre
The Disability Resource and Learning Centre (DRLC) is a MUBS outreach Centre that provides Leadership for creating a proactive culture of disability awareness, facilitating the removal of barriers and creation of an accessible and inclusive environment for students and staff with disabilities. This improves on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The DRLC also offers consultation and research on a broad range of disability issues, employability and entrepreneurship among others and is a one stop point for disability information in Uganda. For any information, please contact us on; Phone: +256 782349359 Email: drlc@mubs.ac.ug
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre
The ICT Centre is an outreach centre consisting of a consortium of local and international consultants, trainers, researchers, practitioners and Academicians collaborating to promote ICT as a solution to individual and institutional development challenges in Uganda and the region. A full profile of the MUBS ICT Centre Services can be found at http://ictcentre.mubs.ac.ug. • ICT training and capacity building for organisations. • ICT Research and Development • ICT Outreach to schools, refugees and rural communities. • ICT Innovation and Incubation. • Short term training programmes