African Leadership University

Students declare 'missions', rather than majors: students as agents of change

Institution

African Leadership University

Region

Africa

COuntry

Rwanda

founding year

2015

student body

1500

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Institutional Approach

The African Leadership University (ALU) in Rwanda has designed its entire institute around supporting students as agents of change. Students declare missions, not majors, and most learning is experiental and action-based; the ALU ascribes to the "10-20-70" rule of 10% classroom-based learning, 20% peer-guided support, and 70% learning-through-doing. The university is arranged into micro-campuses, rather than a traditional single-site university campus. ALU also hosts the School of Wildlife Conservation, which offers training in entrepreneurship for conservation.

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