Tanzania

Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University

SUMAIT · Private university · Zanzibar

TCU status, 11 August 2026: Accredited

Bachelor's programmes, 2026/27

5

open to Form Six applicants

Places for Form Six applicants

870

our sum of the listed capacities

Minimum points

4.0

lowest–highest across its programmes; a floor, not a cut-off

Length

3 years

as listed per programme

Status is as printed on TCU's list of university institutions approved to operate as of 11 August 2026 — “Accredited and Chartered”, “Accredited” or “Provisional Licence” (one college reads “Certificate of Full Registration and Chartered”); campuses, centres and institutes take their mother university's status. TCU states that an institution not on that list is not authorised to offer university education in Tanzania.

Its bachelor's programmes, 2026/27

In alphabetical order. The subjects each programme counts are in TCU's guidebook.

ProgrammeMinimum pointsPlaces
Bachelor of Arts in Counselling PsychologySUM03 · 3 years4.070
Bachelor of Arts with EducationSUM01 · 3 years4.0400
Bachelor of Science in Computer ScienceSUM05 · 3 years4.050
Bachelor of Science in Information TechnologySUM04 · 3 years4.0100
Bachelor of Science with EducationSUM02 · 3 years4.0250

Reading these figures

“Minimum points” is the guidebook's Minimum Institutional Admission Points: the lowest A-level points an applicant needs to be considered for the programme — an eligibility floor, not the score of the last student admitted. Each institution then selects among eligible applicants, on competition for its places; no admitted scores are published. Points come from the grades of the principal passes the programme counts (A = 5, B = 4, C = 3, D = 2, E = 1, S = 0.5; A-levels taken in 2014 and 2015 used a different scale). Each programme also names the subjects that count, which we don't reproduce — read them in TCU's guidebook.

Places are the admission capacity the guidebook lists for holders of secondary-school (Form Six) qualifications. Holders of a diploma apply under a separate guidebook with its own capacities, which can differ for the same programme, so these are not a programme's total intake. Totals are our sums.

TCU's publications carry no tuition fees: each institution sets its own and publishes them itself. The guidebook mentions only TCU's quality assurance fee of TSh 20,000 for every student enrolled at a university institution.

Source: Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) — “University Institutions Approved to operate in Tanzania as of August 11, 2026” and the “Bachelor's Degree Admission Guidebook for the 2026/27 Admission Cycle (For Holders of Secondary School Qualifications)”, August 2026. Facts re-keyed and organised by CollegeMatcher: TCU's text and tables are not reproduced, and sums, groupings, ordering and English labels are ours. Not reviewed or endorsed by TCU.

TCU list of approved university institutions (PDF) · TCU admission guidebook 2026/27, Form Six holders (PDF)

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