Makerere trims undergraduate courses as it doubles down on research

Makerere University is trimming a further batch of undergraduate programmes, continuing a multi-year shift of weight from teaching breadth towards research.

The cuts target low-enrolment and duplicative courses. The university frames the move as focus; critics call it retrenchment. Both can be true at once.

For sixth-formers drawing up their applications, the effect is a narrower but better-resourced menu, and more pressure on cut-off points for the programmes that survive the pruning.

The signal to schools is plain: the destinations their leavers aim for are moving, and university guidance has to move with them.