Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources


The Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources is a university outside Lilongwe, Malawi. It was formed in 2011 by a merger between Bunda College of Agriculture of the University of Malawi and Natural Resources College.

History

The university was established by the Malawian National Assembly in 2011, and had its first intake of students as a new organization in 2012. In addition to the Bunda campus right outside Lilongwe, it has satellite centers in Lilongwe City, Blantyre and Mzuzu for Open and Distance Learning. As of 2017, the university had a student body of 8000 to 8500.
It has four faculties: Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Natural Resources, Faculty of Development Studies, and Faculty of Food and Human Sciences. Ph.D. programmes are operated in collaboration with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture.
Bunda Farm, which was part of Bunda College and an economic negative for the college, became a limited company in 2005.
In 2017, Bunda Farm Ltd. started a service station with fuel pumps at the campus in order to generate income to the university as well as to train students in business management.

Faculties, Departments and Centres

The Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources has the following faculties and departments:

Faculty of Agriculture

Controversies

In December 2017, student protests over frequent power outages at the Bunda campus ended in property damages and an arrest of 46 students. The campus was closed for some time. The Malawi Human Rights Commission that investigated the death of a student found that some students had been subject to torture or inhumane treatment by the police, but did not find the police responsible for the student's death.