University of Kigali Tanzania, China, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ethiopia, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The University of Kigali is a member of: University of Kigali University of Kigali is a fully accredited and chartered university by the Government of Rwanda. UoK started its operations in October 2013. The current Vice-Chancellor of the University is Prof. Peter Mageto. The university started operations in October 2013, with 649 students and has experienced rapid growth in enrolment of more than 6,000 students in the undergraduate programmes and more than 1,000 students in the postgraduate programmes. Its main campus is based in Kigali, Boulevard de
Kigali it remained a relatively small city until the 1970s due to government policies restricting rural-to-urban migration. The population reached 115,000 by 1978, and 235,000 by 1991. The city lost a large fraction of its population during the 1994 genocide, including those killed and those who fled to neighbouring countries. From 1995, however, the economy began to recover and large numbers of long-term Tutsi refugees returned from Uganda. Many of these refugees settled in Kigali and other urban areas, due to difficulty in obtaining land in other parts of the country. This phenomenon, coupled with a high birth rate and increased