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Department of Development Studies
Development Studies Department offers quality and competitive undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Kyambogo University, Uganda. It is an interdisciplinary field of study whose mission is to provide high quality teaching, research, consultancy and public service in different sectors of human development.
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Department of Development Studies

Development Studies is interdisciplinary, constituted through discipline such as Law, anthropology, sociology, gender, economics, political science and international relations, human geography among others. Various professional opportunities arise in development studies such as UN, intergovernmental organizations, NGO’s, journalistic Jobs, private sector consultancy firms. A career in development studies will help you in being involved in your own country’s development and attend to various demands of it.
Ampaire Stellah
“My Course My Priority”

Ricky Richard
Ricky Richard Anywar is a community development expert, legislator, educator, and administrator with broad non-profit management experience.

Prize Tayebwa
Prize Tayebwa is a development practitioner mainly with much passion for humanitarian work.

Josephine Bamanya
Josephine has a master’s degree in Rural Planning and Development from the University of Guelph, Canada and bachelor’s in development studies from Kyambogo University, Uganda (2008-2011 class).