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Schools
The academic functions, such as teaching are carried out by the Schools of the University. The University has six schools. The departments are the administrative units into which a school is divided.
School of Business and Economics

There are three Departments in the School of Business and Economics: Accounting, Economics and Management.

The School’s teaching is concerned with programmes that lead to a Bachelors Degree, a Certificate and a Diploma in Accounting, Economics and Management.

School of Science and Technology

There are two departments in the School of Science & Technology; the Department of Computer Science/Information Technology and the Department of Mathematics.

The School offers a Bachelor of Information Technology, a Bachelor of Computer Applications and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. It also offers BSc/BCom with a double major in Mathematics and any of the other disciplines. Diploma and Certificate programmes are also offered.  The Department of Computer Science/Technology has also started a postgraduate programme.

School of Humanities and Arts

The School of Humanities and Arts consists of the Department of Education and the Department of Language, Literature and Communication.

School of Law

The University has established a campus in Suva at the DAV Girls’ College premises.
The School of Law began teaching the Bachelors of Law (LLB) Degree in 2008.

The vision of the School of Law is to develop into a leading and prestigious Law School in the Asia- Pacific region with a diverse range of strengths providing affordable, high quality, relevant, and socially responsible legal education to the community. Among the values of the University of Fiji law programme are that it will:

  • Be contemporary and at the same time futuristic, rooted in Fiji but well exposed to regional and international developments, taking full account of increasing globalization;
  • Vigorously promote accountability, trust, ethics and moral values in professional legal practice;
  • Promote and uphold the rule of law.
Umanand Prasad School of Medicine

At the Dedication Ceremony of the University of Fiji on 5 March 2006, Dr Umanand Prasad announced his total commitment of $F1 million as progressive funding towards setting up a medical school. The Council agreed that the University should develop a medical school as a self-funding unit of the University and that, in recognition of the exceptional generosity of Dr Umanand Prasad to Fiji, it be named the Umanand Prasad School of Medicine (UPSM) in perpetuity. It was further decided that the UPSM be developed as an integral part of the University of Fiji at its Saweni Campus.

The vision of the Umanand Prasad School of Medicine is to be recognized for:

  • Producing graduates who are dedicated, effective and compassionate community leaders committed to fulfilling the health care needs of rural and underserved communities in Fiji;
  • Advancing the frontier of medical research;
  • Providing excellent medical care and health related community services;
  • Being a leader and innovator in medical education;
  • Being the medical school of choice in the Asia-Pacific region.

The MBBS programme, which commenced in 2008, comprises six years, followed by a compulsory rotating internship of one year. The programme is divided into three phases namely, Preclinical, Para-Clinical and Clinical.

The UPSM MBBS will incorporate clinical practice from the start of the programme. This will ensure that the trainee doctors become familiar with the practice of medicine from the beginning and develop their problem- solving skills.


University Wide Program

The University-wide courses have been designed to establish and maintain links with all the University’s schools and campuses for the purposes of encouraging, promoting and coordinating interdisciplinary studies on a campus-wide basis. It is the intent of the University to encourage the development and offering of interdisciplinary courses such as social research, contemporary Fiji and governance and ethics. Courses open for University-wide enrolment are described below. All UUU (University-wide) courses are defined as compulsory courses for purposes of degree requirements for the B.A., BCom, BCA, BIT, LLB and BSc degrees. Credits earned through these courses are generally applied to the degree as compulsory credits.

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