The government of Rwanda has announced in a decision to help students from East Africa who want to study in Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda by paying 50% of the whole tuition fees.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU-Rwanda), one of the best universities in USA, was established in Rwanda in a way to facilitate Rwandan students and east Africa as a whole to deeply access best technology sciences (ICT).
It is supposed that students studying in this university in 2012/2013 academic year should pay 38,900 US$. From the decision, a student studying at CMU-Rwanda is to pay only 19,450 US$.
Prof. Michel Brezy, a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University said that the decision of installing this university in Rwanda was from His Excellency Paul Kagame’s wish.
He said, “President Kagame is the one who chose this university to be brought in Rwanda and I am sure it will contribute much to the Rwandan education as we are here to help Rwanda in its development through education.
Brezy added that it is much more advantageous for Rwanda to study the same courses as USA is it will make Rwanda have many experts in technology and they are going also to discover many programs with regard to the region.
Vincent Biruta had said before that Rwanda is proud of having Carnegie Mellon University as it had been also said by the President Paul Kagame the time he was visiting this University in US last year.
He said, “this shows that Rwanda is a model country in ICT.”
Bruce Krogh, the head of CMU-Rwanda said that he is happy with the government’s decision of reducing the tuition fee for students in Rwanda.
Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda (CMU-Rwanda) started with short time courses basing on professional development which include 3 lasting 7 weeks, 4 lasting 4 days, and 30 to cover within 6 weeks.
The graduates of these courses will be awarded same degrees as those studying in US as they will be having the same lecturer.
After these short time courses, CMU-Rwanda expects to start Master’s Degree courses on Science in Information Technology (MSIT).
Speaking to the media, Krogh said that they preferred Master’s level because it is the level in which a student conducts as much research as he can.
He said, “a student at Master’s level does not need a lecturer in front of him all the time but it is his part to carry out researches which makes him very complex and creative in as short time as possible.”
The CMU-Rwanda started on 14th February 2012 and applications, for students wishing to attend it, should be not later than 21st April 2012 or contact www,cmu.edu/rwanda.
Carnegie Mellon University is classified among the first universities in USA and Rwanda is the first country to accept it in.
It is located at Kacyiru in the 4th floor of the Telecom House building.
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