Affiliate college of the University of London The university was originally created as the University College Dar es Salaam, an affiliate college of the
University of London on October 25th 1961. The university was briefly located on
Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) premises on Lumumba street, Dar es Salaam. The university would eventually move to its current location on the hill in the Ubungo district in 1964, after becoming a part of the
University of East Africa. It initially only had the faculty of law with fourteen students of which one was female.
Affiliate of the University of East Africa In June of 1963, the British created the university of East Africa by combining the recently established universities of University College Nairobi, University college Dar es Salaam, and
Makerere University College.
The University of East Africa was externally independent college of the University of London. The consolidation of the three colleges were based on the inter-territorial principles of Asquith commission to create a new class of educated African elites. The three colleges were not equal in size and facilities causing a desire to expand from Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The development committee tried to balance the inequities by establishing small faculties of art and science at both Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, but Makerere was receiving a expanded medical program and Nairobi was establishing a wide range of professional degrees in commerce and engineering. Tanzanians were outraged at the perceived favoritism towards the universities in the other areas, and
Nyerere wanted to foster socialist ideas at the university differing from the perspective of the other countries. Due to the ongoing disagreement in education and regional tension the university came to an end after a new report released in 1969 by the commission on higher education that stated that the individual universities should be national universities.
University of Dar Es Salaam The University Of Dar es Salaam became the first national university of Tanzania on July 1st, 1970. The university became more selective, and they created courses to fit the needs of the nation. The university grew to six department of study. The university did not only develop academically and physically, it also developed a socialist ideology in line with
TANU. Julius Nyerere believed that the university was not only a opportunity for the select few, but it came with responsibilities and duties to the nation. In March of 1967, a conference was held to discuss how to tie the university more inline with the Arusha Declaration. This resulted in the creation of a TANU youth league on campus, less overseas faculty, and the mandatory course of Development Studies. These reforms and the change in the city of Dar es Salaam helped to cement the university as one of the capitals of revolution in Africa. People like Museveni attracted by the ideological element came to the university to study and form hard left student groups on campus establishing a powerful leftist minority in the university. Despite the creation of a socialist environment, TANU wanted to control the university fully and with Nyerere's installment as chancellor of the university; he solidified TANU socialism in the university and weakened far left student organizations outside TANU. These attempts to control the university caused an eventual decline in socialist thought on campus, and by 1985 when Nyerere resigned the ideology had become faded on campus.
1980s-1990s As the university entered the 80s things had begun to change as the environment in east Africa was completely different compare to only a decade ago. Tanzania was fighting a war against Idi Amin in Uganda, the increase in petroleum prices, and the fall in agricultural prices had massive impacts on the country and in turn the university. The university was faced with issues of financial constraints, many high level staff and professors left, and lacked autonym as an institution. The government had a declining revenue, which caused a decline in academic fellowships but the university was still faced with an increase in demand for education. The country of Tanzania was faced with the same issues as many other Africans country of satisfying donor demands to keep the aid funding the nation flowing. These demands required most of the aid to go towards primary education and leaving little for tertiary education. One of the policies under the ITP was the reinstatement of cost sharing, a policy where students and parents were gradually reintroduce to the idea of paying for college, which was originally phased out in 1967 when the university decided to offer scholarships to all admitted students. The new policy was faced with massive backlash from students. They formed a mob decrying the policy and threw stones at the home of the chief academic officer. The university also started to utilize donor funding and foreign funding to increase its departments, buildings, and overall academic excellence. During that period external funding amounted to 40% of the university'sincome.
Technologies As the university marches forward towards the new millennium, the university started to incorporate more technology into the school. The university made improvements in the infrastructure to allow for the installation of fiber cables, which connected the university to the internet in 2008. They first implemented blackboards in 1998, which was replaced by Moodle in 2008. The integration of Moodle allowed the university to create blended distance programs for postgraduate degrees in education and engineering management. The university created a center for virtual learning to help ensure the quality of the blended distance programs. ==Rankings==