Midlands State University

Strategic GoalTo establish a fully semesterised University with 10 faculties, 18 000 students, 900 teaching and 400 support staff, with the requisite services and infrastructure by the year 2018.Operational SystemThe University is administered through the committee system embedded in the statutory instruments that currently govern the operation of the University. This is a system likely to give the university extra mileage in terms of output of resolutions and recommendations. This democratic dispensation has been reinforced through the involvement of all stakeholders, including the university students.Academic programmesThe ultimate goal of MSU is to establish a University with ten faculties by 2018. To date the University offers degree programmes in nine faculties. These are Arts, Commerce, Education, Law,Medicine, Mining Engineering, Natural Resources Management and Agriculture, Science and Technology and Social Sciences.Fully Semesterised UniversityMidlands State University is a fully semesterised and modularised University. Enrolment takes place twice a year, in March and in August. Modules offered at any level in a semester are available at the same level during the next semester. This arrangement gives an opportunity to those students who, at the end of a semester are required to 'carry' or 'repeat' failed modules to do so in the next semester.Students enrolled at MSU study for four-year or five-year degree programmes spending their Third Level on Work Related Learning in industry and other relevant work places. The University stresses entrepreneurial skills so that graduates can either be formally or self employed. Work Related Learning is a contemporary approach to teaching and learning which requires a student to spend some time during the course of study on "hands on" practical experience in the relevant field.