A fresh approach to business education in Africa
MM Student Life
Student life at ALU School of Business goes beyond just academics. Your growth, learning and development is a holistic process that involves your peers, surroundings and resources available to you.
We ensure this by offering a wide variety of university initiatives and cultural experiences.
The Student Representative Council (SRC) is a democratically-elected student leadership body. Organised by students and for students, the SRC aims to give opportunities for student experience in leadership and encourage community relations. With full support from the business school administration, the council is created to ensure that you shape your own student life journey by giving you the opportunity to manage and run clubs and societies of interest and organise student events and activities.
We value your physical and mental health. The primary goal of the wellness centre is to assist members of the business school community experience personal growth and to promote positive well-being through:
- – Professional counselling
- – Wellness seminars
- – Medical insurance to ensure your health finances are covered.
To further enhance your learning experience, ALUSB has activities and amenities for you to interact with your peers, test your leadership ability as well as build lifelong skills. You will enjoy access to various amenities and benefits such as:
- – Gymnasium and swimming facilities
- – Sports – Soccer , basketball, volleyball
- – Conference & Summit attendance
- – Internal and external competition
- – Volunteering Opportunities
Discover Rwanda
Besides Kigali being known as the cleanest and safest city in Africa, Rwanda is a beautiful country with a lot to offer!
If you have cuisine curiosity, Rwanda will surpass your expectations with quite a diverse mix of local delights and regional delicacies from meat brochettes, starchy bananas locally known as matoke. Being based in Kigali will give you access to some of the best restaurants in Rwanda for your choosing.
Rwanda has well-maintained roads that allow you to access nature at its core. A place to be is Lake Kivu which has a sandy beach surrounded by beautiful misty mountains. You can also have a wild safari in Akagera National park which is home to some of the most majestic animals including leopards, baboons, hyenas, zebras and buffalos.
Kigali has a healthy nightlife to help you unwind after a long busy day. If you enjoy Karaoke nights, jazz music, after-parties or live bands – Kigali has some nice spots you can enjoy with your friends including 514 Club, PiliPili resto-bar, Inema Art Gallery and Cocobean. Each spot has its own vibrancy and crowd for you to enjoy.
If you want to learn about Rwanda’s phenomenal rise to one of Africa’s most developed nations, Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre is the place to start. The incredible museum pieces together the events of the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 with great perceivable and emotional effect. Expect to learn and be moved by Rwanda’s resilience and the progress that it has made in just 26 years.
Rwanda is one of the few locations in the world where you can get to see gorillas in their natural habitat. Volcanoes National Park shares a border with Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and is home to the endangered Mountain Gorillas. You can take a weekend to have quite an unforgettable experience Gorilla trekking through the thick bamboo forests while interacting with the Gorilla families.
Nothing gives a more authentic experience than immersing yourself in culture, Rwanda has an exceptional culture in its arts, history and way of life. You can visit Kigali cultural village or Kaplaki Crafts Market which have traditional artefacts, clothing as well as food. It also hosts fashion shows, music and poetry events in addition to workshops for you to get a taste of Rwanda’s culture.
Rwanda has gained its reputation as a country driven by visionary and transformational leadership. It also boasts the majority women representation in parliament globally, Rwanda’s positive economic development and political stability are indicative of good African leadership.
Do I need a visa to study in Rwanda?
Citizens of countries members to the following international organisations; African Union, Commonwealth and La Francophonie get a visa upon arrival and are waived visa fees for a visit of 30 days.
A citizen of East African Community Member States shall be issued a pass/entry visa-free of charge upon arrival to stay for the period of six months.
The following countries to be granted 90 days valid visa free of charge upon arrival: Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Haiti, Mauritius, Philippines, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, Singapore and the state Qatar.
The visa fees must not exceed 50 USD for a single entry visa or 70 USD for multiple entries. Click here to access the Rwanda immigration website.
Download the ALUSB MBA brochure!
Discover the first pan-African MBA programme of its kind!
Download the ALUSB MBA brochure!
PRIVACY POLICY
At ALUSB, accessible from https://www.alusb.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by ALUSB and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in ALUSB. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator and the Free Privacy Policy Generator.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. For our Terms and Conditions, please visit the Terms & Conditions Generator.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
ALUSB follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, ALUSB uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies” from Cookie Consent.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our Advertising Partners
Some advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of ALUSB.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on ALUSB, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that ALUSB has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
ALUSB’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
ALUSB does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
