Lupane State University

Student capacity is 600. THIS SMALL rural university opened its doors to 81 undergraduate students in 2005. The inaugural enrolments have all been into the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. Long-term plans include the establishment of academic programmes in the environmental sciences, wildlife management, forestry, and engineering.

Of the nine academic staff at Lupane State University, one has a doctoral qualification, and six have masters degrees. The university has recently introduced a Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development that will ?foster and facilitate sustained agriculture and development through the training of rural communities?.

Lupane is a small town just off the main highway between Bulawayo and the Victoria Falls, and not far from Hwange (formerly Wankie) National Park.