Alarming school Dropouts University student drop-out rate is Alarming According to the 2016 Africa Higher Education student survey project , Almost 30% of all students in Uganda, who join university education on various programmes in various universities, never finish their course on time , or just drop out.

At Makerere University , Uganda's main university out of the 67 universities the Annual dropout was found at the rate of 34.4% and 83.9% for bachelors degree In the recent case 1,800 students who had failed to finish their courses on time were discontinued. Dropping out of the university- means students leaving university before completing courses they applied and registered for. High school student dropout and failure rates are a major problem in a country with limited state resources , desperate shortage of high level skills and a pressing need to raise income levels among the poor.

Major Causes of University dropouts: Research has concluded that Socio-cultural and financial factors mainly contribute to the student drop out. Family background is another social factor that leads to student dropouts, according to research. About 83.7% of the students agree that their family background contributed to dropout. Here there is evidence that most students drop out due to failure to pay tuition fees.

It was reported in the national newspaper on 26th June 2019, the high dropouts in Uganda partly are because of tuition and other economic and social related issues. Students, especially girls, encounter so many problems and it's gradually affecting the country's university education.Something just has to be done.

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