The School of Law and the wider Uganda Christian University (UCU) has sealed a partnership with O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), one of the best law schools, ranked number one in India, number one in South Asia and number eighty seven globally. O.P. Jindal Global University located at Sonipat, Haryana India was established in 2009 as a philanthropic initiative by Naveen Jindal, the founding chancellor, an industrialist, philanthropist and a former member of parliament in India.
Representing UCU, the Vice Chancellor Aaron Mushengyezi signed a collaboration agreement with Prof. Dr. Raj Kumar, a Rhodes Scholar and the founding Vice Chancellor of JGU. UCU was also represented by Dr. Peter Mutesasira, the Dean, School of Law. Throughout the partnership, the two universities will be able to foster partnership in the areas of staff and student mobility, academics and research, sharing of knowledge and advance legal training.
“Both UCU and JGU being private universities, this academic collaboration with enhance quality South to South legal education for the good of our staff and students” – says Dr. Peter Mutesasira.
JGU is one of the only twelve institutions in India to have received a recognition by the University Grants Commission allowing such universities more autonomy administratively and academically with the power to open offshore compasses and wider collaborations with global universities.
