Location

The campus of The Bridge University is located in Altabara B neighborhood, in the city of Juba, the capital

Capital City

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 of South Sudan and the largest city in that country. This location lies in the southestern section of the city, close to the White Nile River, at the point where the road to Nimule

Nimule

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 (A43) crosses over it. The approximate coordinates of the univesity campus are: 4° 50' 6.00"N, 31° 36' 0.00"E (Latitude: 4.83500; Longitude: 31.60000). The coordinates are approximate because the university campus does not yet show on most publicly available maps.

History

The Bridge University was founded in 2009 as a post-secondary college. However, after one semester, the administration upgraded to a full university to meet the overwheming demand for instruction. As of July 2011, the university has over 3000 students enrolled with over 65 full-time lecturers and over 45 part time staff. The university offers certificate, diploma and first degree courses.

Academic Units

, the university maintains the following faculties, departments and institutes:

1. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
2. Faculty of Business Administration & Management
3. Faculty of Science
4. Department of Computer Science
5. Department of Business Studies
6. Department of Law
7. Department of Languages
8. Department of Health Sciences
9. Institute for Social Research
10. Institute of Open and Distance Learning

Academic courses

, the university offers the following courses:
Undergraduate Degree courses

• Bachelors of International Relations & Diplomacy
  International relations
  International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
  
  
• Bachelors of Public Administration & Management
  Public administration
  Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
  
  
• Bachelors of Development Studies
  Development studies
  Development studies is a multidisciplinary branch of social science which addresses issues of concern to developing countries. It has historically placed a particular focus on issues related to social and economic development, and its relevance may therefore extend to communities and regions...
  
  
• Bachelors of Human Resources Management
  Human resources
  Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...
  
  
• Bachelors of Project Planning & Management
  Management
  Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
  
  
• Bachelors of Social Work & Social Administration
  Social work
  Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...
  
  
• Bachelors of Accounting & Finance
• Bachelors of Statistics & Applied Economics
  Statistics
  Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
  
  
• Bachelors of Business Administration
• Bachelors of Micro Finance
  Microfinance
  Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low-income clients or solidarity lending groups including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services....
  
  
• Bachelors of Procurement & Logistics Management
  Logistics
  Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
  
  
• Bachelors of Business Administration in Economics & International Finance
  Economics
  Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
  
  
• Bachelor of Laws
  Bachelor of Laws
  The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...
  
  

Undergraduate Diploma courses

• Diploma in Public Administration & Management
• Diploma in Mass Communication
• Diploma in Development Studies
• Diploma in Human Resources Management
• Diploma in Project Planning & Management
• Diploma in Social Work & Social Administration
• Diploma in Accounting & Finance
• Diploma in Business Administration
• Diploma in Procurement & Logistics Management
• Diploma in Economics & nternational Finance
• Diploma in Information Technology
• Diploma in Secondary Education
• Diploma in Primary Education
• Diploma in Laboratory Science
• Diploma in Health Service Management

Postgraduate courses
The university does not yet offer postgraduate courses.

Certificate courses
In addition to the above courses, the universisity offers a varrety of short courseds which last from a few weeks to serveral moths leading to the award of a certificate.Some of the certificate courses include;

1. Certificate in computer hardware maintanance
2. Oracle 9i
3. PL/SQL Database programming.
4. Advanced certificate in Computer Networking.
5. Certificate in dynamic web design.
6. Certificate in Computer Applications.
7. Certificate in Statistical Data Analysis Using SPSS

External links

• Approximate Location of The Bridge University Campus

See also

• Juba, South Sudan
• Central Equatoria
  Central Equatoria
  -Government:Executive*Governor - Maj. Gen. Clement Wani Konga*Deputy Governor and Minister of Education, Science and Technology - Mr. Manase Lomole Waya *Minister of Education - Lokulenge Lole Lokule...
  
  
• Equatoria
  Equatoria
  Equatoria is a region in the south of present-day South Sudan along the upper reaches of the White Nile. Originally a province of Egypt, it also contained most of Northern part of present day Uganda including Albert Lake...
  
  
• Education in South Sudan
  Education in South Sudan
  In South Sudan, the educational system is modelled after that of the Republic of Sudan. Primary education consists of eight years, followed by three years of secondary education, and then four years of university instruction; the 8 + 3 + 4 system, in place since 1990...
  
  
• List of universities in South Sudan