The University of the Sacred Heart Gulu (USHG) is a private university affiliated with the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu ( la, Guluen(sis)) is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Gulu in Uganda. History * 1923.06.12: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Nilo Equatoriale from the Apostolic Vicariate o ...

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. It caters to students primarily from Uganda and neighboring

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and the

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Location

The university's main campus is located in the western part of the city of Gulu, adjacent to the offices and studios of ''Radio Pacis Gulu'', approximately , by road, west of the city centre. The geographical coordinates of the university campus are: 2°46'15.0"N, 32°16'00.0"E (Latitude:2.770833; Longitude:32.266667). In 2016, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu donated land, measuring for expansion of the university.

Overview

The university was established to bridge the gap between the services offered by

Gulu University Gulu University (GU) is a university in Uganda. It is one of the nine public universities in the country, as of September 2016. Location , GU has three campuses. (a) The main campus is approximately , by road, north-east of the central business ...

, the public institution of higher learning, and the need for higher education among the population, both locally and regionally. Courses in

Information and communications technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...

and

Counseling psychology Counseling psychology is a psychological specialty that encompasses research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention and health. ...

were selected to start with, due to the high levels of suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, as a result of twenty years of the

Lord's Resistance Army The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also known as the Lord's Resistance Movement, is a rebel group and heterodox Christian group which operates in northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the ...

insurgency. Courses in the health science arena are planned for the future, in conjunction with St. Mary's Hospital Lacor, St. Joseph's Hospital Kitgum and

Dr. Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital Kalongo Hospital, also known as Dr. Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital, is a hospital in Northern Uganda. It is a private, community hospital, serving the town of Kalongo and surrounding areas of Agago District, Pader District and parts of Kitgum Dis ...

, in

Agago District The Agago District is a Ugandan district located in North east Uganda. Location Agago District is bordered by Kitgum District to the north, Kotido District to the northeast, Abim District to the east, Otuke District, to the south, and Pader ...

. Immediate challenges include the lack of adequate student accommodation near the current lecture rooms.

Academics

The university has one faculty at the beginning; the Faculty of

Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

and

Social Sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

. The faculty has two departments (a) Department of

Counselling Counseling is the professional guidance of the individual by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes. This is a list of co ...

and (b) Department of

Information and Communications Technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...

. Two degrees are on offer, the Bachelor of Counselling Psychology and the Bachelor of Information Systems.

References

External links

Website of the University of Sacred Heart Gulu

Call for Applications for the 2017/2018 Academic Year Intake
{{Gulu District Universities and colleges in Uganda 2016 establishments in Uganda Catholic universities and colleges in Africa Educational institutions established in 2016 Gulu Gulu District Acholi sub-region

Location

Overview

Academics

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