Welcome to the Department of Applied Computing and Information Technology.

Head of Department: Prof. Robert Kyeyune

About the Department

The Department was set up in 2001 and operationalized in 2004 under the Faculty of Management. It was later transferred to the newly created Faculty of Computing and Management Science and it is still under the Faculty to date.

Its original head of Department was Mr Moya Musa, who is now a Professor and the current Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Informatics.

In 2012, Dr Kizito Bada became its Head of Department up to 2013 when Dr. Robert Kyeyune took over from him.

In 2017,the department has been renamed to Applied computing and Information Technology to emphasis the Applicability of Information Technology in all spheres of life.

The mandate is to teach all ICT and related course units in MUBS, supervise students in all ICT researchable areas but above all conduct research. A number of researches from different staff in the department have been published in peer reviewed journals over the years and am proud to state that the Department staff are actively involved in presentation of their researches in a number of conferences both local and international.

Message from the Head of Department

The changes that have taken place in the last 20 years have been primarily driven by business in their search for competitive advantage. Businesses have come up with new products driven primarily by new Technologies. A central element in business has been information communication technology. Most of the processes in the business have been computerized including accounts,human resource data-bases,production process, Invoicing and data collection. Nevertheless , the process of computerization in Uganda was slow at first,this could have been attributed to the high cost of computers then. With the reduction in IT costs, a number of organizations have now acquired computers and are adapting their businesses to modern computerized businesses.

Therefore the Department of  Applied Computing and Information Technology   provides graduates who can assist not only in the process of computerizing business processes but also help to run the computers themselves in business organizations.

The Department continuously strives to update its course units and teaching approaches to meet the ever changing business process requirements in the world.

Lastly l welcome all potential applicants to apply to join the department; it is indeed the place to be.