:University of Khartoum

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In 1898 after Britain gained dominance in Sudan as part of a condominium arrangement, Lord Kitchener proposed founding a college in the memory of Gordon of Khartoum, who was killed in the Siege of Khartoum. The request for donations of £100,000 to build the college was achieved in six weeks and the Gordon Memorial College was founded in 1902 with initially three schools - an industrial school and two higher primary schools and a small teachers training centre.{{Cite book|title=Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of Gordon Memorial College 3 October 1903|publisher=University College of Khartoum|year=1953|location=Khartoum, Sudan}}

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By 1906, the college was also offering programs for training assistant engineers, land surveyors and primary school teachers. The first equipped laboratory for bacteriological analysis was added in 1905, with donations from Sir Henry Wellcome, an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur and archaeologist. There was also an affiliated Military school.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In 1924, it was decided to make the college a wholly secondary institution with the college incorporating programs in Sharia, engineering and surveying, education (teachers training), clerical work, accounting and science. Primary and military schools were removed. The Kitchener School of Medicine, the first medical school in Sudan, was also established that year.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

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Dates for the establishment of further schools were; 1936 School of Law, 1938 School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, 1939 Science and Engineering and 1940 Arts. In 1947, the college was affiliated with The University of London as the first overseas participant in its "special relationship" scheme. The first graduates to receive University of London degrees completed their programs in 1950. The next year, Gordon Memorial College was formally renamed University College Khartoum, which incorporated the Kitchener School of Medicine.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

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When Sudan gained independence in 1956, the new Parliament passed a bill to award university status to Khartoum University College. It officially became Khartoum University on 24 July 1956. The eminent horticultural scientist John Pilkington Hudson was a visiting professor in 1961–1963, who founded its department of horticulture.ODNB entry: [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/99289 Retrieved 24 July 2011.]{{subscription required}}

On 5 April 1984, the Government announced the closure of all faculties of the university. The university was reopened fully on August 1.{{cite book|editor1=Haim Shaked|editor2=Daniel Dishon|title=Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. 8, 1983-84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t32OO3DkDikC&pg=PA646|year=1986|publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center|isbn=978-965-224-006-4|page=646}}

The university was closed several times after the 1989 military coup d'état for the intensive participation of its students in pro-democracy rallies.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In the early days of the Sudanese civil war (2023-present) in April 2023, at least one student was killed and some injured by gunfire and the University was shut down for days while eagerly seeking support to evacuate dozens of people stranded and sheltering on campus.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/africa/sudan-fighting-intensifies-students-intl-hnk/index.html|title=Ceasefire crumbles amid chaos in Sudan as death toll reaches 270|first=Jessie Yeung,Teele Rebane, Rob|last=Picheta|date=April 18, 2023|website=CNN}} The same student was buried on campus later.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65311470|title=Student shot and buried in Sudan university campus|work=BBC News |date=April 18, 2023}}

The campus was located in a besieged enclave and occupied by the Sudanese Armed Forces. The Army used the school as a barracks and headquarters before being ousted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In September 2024, the Sudanese Armed Forces launched a major offensive in Khartoum and retook the university. The school was heavily damaged, with various buildings ransacked.{{Cite web |date=26 September 2024 |title=Sudan army launch major Khartoum offensive |url=https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-army-launch-major-khartoum-offensive |website=Radio Dabanga}}{{Cite web |last=Monitor |first=Sudan War |title=Khartoum in Ruins: Scenes from Sudan's Capital After Two Years of War |url=https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/khartoum-in-ruins-scenes-from-sudans |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=sudanwarmonitor.com |language=en}}

The university has 16,800 undergraduate students in 23 faculties, schools and graduate research institutes. The annual admission rate is 3,500 students, 55% of whom are female. There are 6,000 graduate students (graduate diploma, M.Sc. and Ph.D.). It has 850 teaching staff (faculty), 20 research fellows and 500 teaching assistants.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

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There are four campuses:

• The Central Campus in Central Khartoum.
• The Medical Campus located in the North of Central Khartoum.
• The Agriculture and Veterinary Campus at Shambat, Khartoum North.{{cite web|url=http://www.uofk.edu/faculties/veterinary/about/about.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041224090405/http://www.uofk.edu/faculties/veterinary/about/about.htm|title=Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - About|archive-date=24 December 2004}}
• The Faculty of Education Campus at Omdurman 15 km from central campus.
• Suba Campus (Faculty of Medical Laboratory Science, Suba Hospital) at Suba, 20 km South of Khartoum.
• The management studies campus in central Khartoum.

Undergraduate admission policy is governed by the Board of Higher Education of Sudan, which sets the minimum admission requirement for high school students based on their national origin (Sudanese vs. non-Sudanese) and the high-school certificate board.

For post-graduate studies, the requirements are on the university admission webpage.{{cite web |url=http://www.uofk.edu/admission/index.htm |title=U. Of K. Admission and Registration Administration |access-date=2006-04-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213015019/http://www.uofk.edu/admission/index.htm |archive-date=2006-02-13 }}

Students of University of Khartoum engage in workshops, lectures, debates, forum activism, book clubs and political parties. Sporting activities include university sports championship tournaments and Sudan colleges championship tournaments.

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• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Nursing Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Architecture
• Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
• School of Management Studies
• Faculty of Economic and Social Studies
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Forestry
• Faculty of Animal Production
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Geographical and Environmental Sciences
• Faculty of Technological and Developmental Studies
• Faculty of Public and Environmental Health
• Faculty of Medicine

it was the Department of Geography established in 1945 as a unit in the School of Arts, University College of Khartoum which became the University of Khartoum in 1956, and the Unit became a department thereof. Administratively, it was a department in the Faculty of Arts, but its academic and research activities transcend the faculty's boundaries to various faculties and institutes within the university like the faculties of Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Science, Agriculture, Forestry, Education, Medicine, and institutes of Environmental Studies, Afro-Asian Studies, Urban Studies and Development Studies and Research. The department occupies a two-storey building. The northern wing comprises sixteen staff offices and the GIS laboratory while the lecture halls the library and the cartography laboratory are located in the southern wing. The Faculty has been established under the University Council resolution No.129 on 12/12/2010 as an upgrading of the old Geography Department, Faculty of Arts, which was established in 1945, and is located in the university main campus in a two buildings complex. The Faculty was established with a scientific vision to cope with the tremendous scientific advances and changes induced by the information revolution and globalization.

Faculty of Geographical and Environmental Sciences includes the following departments: (Geographical Information Systems and Cartography - Environment and Ecology - Human and Population Studies - Planning and Development)

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Faculty of Public and Environmental Health, University of Khartoum includes the following departments: (Food Hygiene and Safety - Health Education - Epidemiology - Environmental Health and Environmental Studies). The college awards a bachelor's degree in Public and Environmental Health in four years. The Bachelor of Science in Public and Environmental Health Honors in five years. Master's degree in Public and Environmental Health in one of six specialties (Public Health -Food Hygiene and Safety - Health Education - Epidemiology - Environmental Health- Medical Entomology)

The Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences was founded in 1966 under the name "School of Medical Laboratory Technicians" as a joint venture between the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum and the Ministry of Health.

Its development was continued until in 1993 an ordinance was passed for the establishment of the College of Medical Laboratory Sciences an independent institution affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In 1997, it was merged with the University of Khartoum as the Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences (FMLS).

The Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences offers preparation for careers in medical (clinical) laboratory sciences. A career in medical laboratory sciences is a great way to combine an aptitude for science with the desire to help others. Medical Laboratory Scientists, also known as clinical laboratory scientists, are highly skilled professionals who perform analytical tests on blood, tissue, and body fluids to provide laboratory information for the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases. There also is a growing trend for medical lab scientists to perform wellness laboratory testing aimed at preventing disease.

Degrees Awarded:

General B.Sc.: 4 years

Honor B.Sc.: 5 years

M.S.c: By courses

M.Sc.: By research

PhD: By research

Departments of the Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences:

It is one of the biggest departments in FMLS, it includes the following disciplines: Medical Bacteriology, Medical Virology, Medical Mycology, Immunology.

Deals with all aspects related to blood, its components and related diseases such as anaemia, cancer, and also blood transfusion.

Teaches the knowledge of pathogenic parasites such as malaria, worms such as Schistosomes and insect vectors of diseases.

Deals with everything related to body chemistry including but not limited to chemical shifts in the body due to diseases, hormonal balance, enzymes, trace elements and toxicology.

Focuses on identifying the composition of cells and tissues of the body and the change in their composition due to chronic cases. Division of the Department: Cytopathology, Histotechniques, Immunohistochemistry, Cytogenetics, Molecular Pathology, Cellular pathology

Faculty of Dentistry was established in 1971 as a school that belong to the Faculty of Medicine. It was the first in Sudan to provide dental training. In 1992 it upgraded to a separate faculty. The school now has approximately 60 outstanding faculty and staff and 600 students enrolled in BDS degree programs, 90 postgraduate and 90 dental technology.

1. B.D.S. (five years)
2. Intermediate Diploma in dental technology (three years)
3. M.Sc. in wide variety of specialties (two years)
4. Ph.D. in wide variety of specialties (three years)
5. DDS - RD (four years)
6. DDS - Dental Specialty (four years)

1. Dental Clinics
2. Phantom Head Lab
3. Dental Laboratory
4. Museum
5. Histopathology Lab
6. Dental Radiology Unit
7. Library and e-library

By the end of 2011, Faculty of Dentistry became the only center in Africa for examinations of the Diploma of Member of Faculty of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeon in Ireland (NNJ). Part 1 exam is held twice a year and Part 2 is once a year. In all the previous exams, faculty graduate achieved outstanding grades.

Faculty of Dentistry Student have an association through which they can realize a lot of their activities. It is a member in the International Association of Dental Students (IADS). ADSUK organized one of the most successful IADS' conferences in Khartoum in 2006. One of the most programs arranged by ADSUK are the Health Field Trip where students as well as staff member travel to rural areas and stay there to give distant citizens dental services and to educate them.

University of Khartoum plays a leading role in scientific research and development through a number of specialized research centers and institutes:

• Institute of Endemic Diseases
• Professor Abdalla Eltayeb Institute for Arabic Language
• Institute of African and Asian Studies
• Building and Road Research Institute (BRRI)
• Development Studies and Reserarch Institute
• Mycetoma Research Center{{Cite web |date=25 April 2025 |title=Sudan war destroys world's only research centre on skin disease mycetoma: director |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250424-sudan-war-destroys-world-s-only-research-centre-on-skin-disease-mycetoma-director |access-date=25 April 2025 |website=France 24 |language=en-GB }}
• Institute of Environmental Studies
• Materials and Nanotechnology Research Center

University of Khartoum Library, known as the "Main Library," is one of the biggest and oldest libraries in universities in Sudan and Africa. The library building represents the historical and iconic heritage of the University of Khartoum. In addition to the Main Library, there are small libraries in each faculty and institute as well as Altegany Almahi library for postgraduate students and Sudan Library.

University of Khartoum has an Information Technology and Communication Center which is responsible for developing and managing of the ICT infrastructure of the university. All university campuses are connected by dedicated high-speed links (fiber optics); WiFi covers most of the campuses and electronic registration on the university website. In addition to the ICT centre, the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences has its own Information Technology research unit which is active in developing and promoting Open Source software in Sudan.

{{see also category|Academic staff of the University of Khartoum}}

• Michael Grant, prolific British classicist, was vice-chancellor from 1956 to 1958.
• Wendy James, British anthropologist who was a lecturer in social anthropology from 1964 to 1969; she was later a professor at the University of Oxford.
• Sir Marriott Fawckner Nicholls, the British prominent genitourinary surgeon, was professor of surgery from 1964 until his death in 1969.
• Daniel Pedoe, English-born mathematician and geometer{{cite web |date=July 2015 |title=Daniel Pedoe |url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Pedoe.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204752/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Pedoe.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |accessdate=6 October 2015 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews}}

Since the independence of Sudan, highly qualified Sudanese were appointed to the position of University of Khartoum vice chancellor. The first one was Dr. Nasr El Hag Ali, the tenth was Professor Muddathir Tingari, and the most notable one was professor Nazir Dafallah.{{cite web |title=Father Of Sudanese Veterinary Medicine, Prof. Elnazeer Dafa’alla{{!}} Sudanow Magazine |url=https://sudanow-magazine.net/page.php?subId=2&Id=1174 |website=sudanow-magazine.net}}

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University of Khartoum plays a great role in building and qualifying most of the Sudanese leaders.

• Abdalla Hamdok, a public administrator who became the 15th Prime Minister of Sudan
• Hassan al-Turabi, leader of the National Islamic Front and former dean of the Faculty of Law
• Ali Osman Taha, former vice president of Sudan
• John Garang, former leader of Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
• Francis Deng: Former United Nations' Under-Secretary General
• Ibrahim Abood Ahmed: Former commander in chief of Sudanese military forces and president of Sudan
• Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa: Former prime minister and minister of education of Sudan
• Mohamed Ahmed Mahjoob: Former prime minister and foreign minister of Sudan
• Ammar Mohammed Mahmoud, diplomat
• Babiker Awadalla: Former prime minister and foreign minister of Sudan
• Rashid Bakr: Former vice president and prime minister of Sudan
• Al-Jazuli Daf'allah: Former prime minister and head of the Sudanese Medical Association of Sudan
• Abdelmahmood Abdelhaleem, Former Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations
• Nisreen Elsaim, youth climate activist and member of the United Nation's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
• Usamah Mohamad, Citizen journalist and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience
• Nureldin Satti, Sudanese ambassador.
• Nasreldin Abdelbari: Justice Minister of Sudan.

• Sharief Babiker: Professor of Electronics at University of Khartoum.
• Elfatih A.B. Eltahir: Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at MIT.{{cite web|url=http://cee.mit.edu/eltahir|title=MIT - Faculty - Elfatih A.B. Eltahir - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT|date=16 September 2013}}
• Daoud Mustafa Khalid: Professor of Neurology.{{Cite web|title=Daoud Mustafa-Khalid {{!}} RCP Museum|url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/daoud-mustafa-khalid|access-date=2020-06-12|website=history.rcplondon.ac.uk}}
• Mansour Ali Haseeb: First Sudanese Professor and first Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum.{{Cite journal|last=Salih|first=Mustafa Abdalla M|date=2013|title=Remembering for tomorrow: Professor Mansour Ali Haseeb|journal=Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics|volume=13|issue=2|pages=76–83|issn=0256-4408|pmc=4949946|pmid=27493378}}
• Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali: a pioneer in paediatric cardiology in Sudan.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Sulafa Khalid Ali {{!}} Just another UofK site |url=http://staffpages.uofk.edu/sulafa-ali/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |language=en-US}}
• Abbashar Hussein: Professor of Neurology.{{Cite web|title=Department of Medicine {{!}} University of Khartoum|url=http://staffpages.uofk.edu/department-of-medicine/|access-date=2020-06-14|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=KT for good: This doctor treats thousands of his patients for free|url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-for-good/kt-for-good-this-doctor-treats-thousands-of-his-patients-for-free|access-date=2020-06-14|website=Khaleej Times|language=en}}
• Mustafa Abdalla Mohamed Salih: Professor of Pediatric Neurology.{{Cite web |title=Pediatrician Salih Proves Broad Beans Extracts Can Cure Epilepsy{{!}} Sudanow Magazine |url=https://sudanow-magazine.net/page.php?Id=724 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=sudanow-magazine.net}}

• Leila Aboulela: Writer and playwright
• Meena Alexander: Poet and Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im: Islamic scholar and Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law
• Mandour Elmahdi: Author, former Principal of the Institute of Education (Sudan) and Director of Education (Saudi Arabia)
• Abdalla Eltayeb: Scholar in the Arabic language
• Ghalia Garelnabi: Archaeologist and museum director
• Awn Alsharif Qasim: Writer, encyclopedist and scholar of Islamic history and of Sudanese dialects
• Tayeb Salih: Novelist

• List of Islamic educational institutions

• Education in Sudan

• List of universities in Sudan

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