Tanzania

Karume Institute of Science and Technology

KIST · Public non-university institution · Zanzibar

Not on TCU's list (non-university institution) — approved to admit to the bachelor's programmes below.

Bachelor's programmes, 2026/27

5

open to Form Six applicants

Places for Form Six applicants

150

our sum of the listed capacities

Minimum points

4.0

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

Length

3–4 years

as listed per programme

Non-university institutions — colleges and institutes registered by NACTVET, the technical and vocational education council — are not on TCU's list of university institutions, but TCU's guidebook lists the bachelor's programmes they are approved to admit to in this cycle. The guidebook says its programmes are approved by TCU or NACTVET.

Its bachelor's programmes, 2026/27

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

ProgrammeMinimum pointsPlaces
Bachelor of Civil EngineeringKIS03 · 4 years4.025
Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics EngineeringKIS04 · 4 years4.025
Bachelor of Engineering in Aircraft MaintenanceKIS01 · 4 years4.025
Bachelor of information and multimedia technologiesKIS06 · 3 years4.050
Bachelor of Telecommunication and Networking EngineeringKIS05 · 4 years4.025

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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