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Revamping our School of Business and Applied Technology.
Meet the new SOBAT Team By Daphne Bukirwa The School Of Business and Applied Technology (SOBAT) is the youngest school at the University. The School was born out of the need to meet the country’s demand for well trained and qualified business professionals. SOBAT aspires to usher in a new way of training and tooling business professionals. We aim to become a leading Ugandan business school that offers development of global business skills, applicable to a local business context aimed at achieving a social development agenda which increases wealth and welfare in Uganda, building on current business school best practice, the latest technological capabilities and
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capitalizing on Uganda’s growing faith-based culture Since its opening in 2019, we have made a number of changes, to revamp and improve the school. Here are some of the new changes. 1) The School has increased its product offering to meet the aspirations of the market. It now offers the popular Master of Business Administration (MBA) whose inquiries have been impressive so far. This is in addition to the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Applied Computing Technologies (BACT), Bachelor of Procurement and logistics Management (BPL), Bachelor of Tourism and Hospitality Management (BTH) and Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (BAF). 2) Partnership with Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB). The university is partnering with Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) to train Certificate and Diploma students in Business, Information communication Technology, Applied computing technologies, Tourism and hospitality, Finance and Accounting and procurement and Logistics. Students on these programmers are examined by UBTEB. After graduation from these UBTEB courses, the students can now enroll on the School’s degree programs. 3)
The school has recruited a team of brilliant
