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 Business 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 organizations 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, promote professional knowledge management in organisations and in multi stakeholder partnership s and improving competences and capabilities in knowledge management through conferences , different 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 MUBS Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre is an outreach Centre established in 2011 in partnership with Southern  University’s International Center for Information Technology and Development (ICITD) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – USA to deliver ICT solutions to Africa’s poor resource settings.

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

Leadership Centre

It is a pleasure to introduce to you the MUBS Leadership Centre. The Centre was established in 2007 as one of MUBS outreach Centres to focus on development of Leaders and best Leadership and governance practices. The Centre is guided by a strong board and committed Management that implements the strategic plan. The Centre has conducted a number of activities to achieve its set goals that include creating a database of world leaders, Research, Publication, short term Trainings, Mentoring programmes, Seminars and Conferences. I take the opportunity to thank all stake holders that have contributed to the milestones that the Centre is proud of today.

We continue to engage different target groups in our activities. We have engaged powerful organizations like Bank of Uganda, National Water and Sewerage Corporation in our training programmes. We have gone regional to train top administrative staff of COMESA at Lusaka Zambia.

Our seminar have discussed topical issues like, Lessons from the best, Challenges for African Leadership: Lessons from the life of Jawaharlal Nehru India’s first prime minister, Kuan Yew a Benevolent Dictator- former Singapore prime Minister” , Decentralization its benefits challenges and the role of leaders, Corporate Governance the life blood of Organizations among others.  Our most recent conference under the theme “The poverty dilemma: The role of Leadership” was graced by His Excellence the Vice President of Uganda.