Botswana

Botswana’s Vision 2036 aims for all its citizens to be knowledgeable, with relevant quality education that is outcome based with an emphasis on technical and vocational skills as well as academic competencies.

Many years before Limkokwing University Botswana was established, hundreds of young people from across the continent had travelled to Cyberjaya, Malaysia to study at the flagship global campus.

Botswana was spending a significant amount of money to send its best students abroad, similar to what Malaysia was doing decades earlier.

Spurred by growing concerns about the trend in other African countries, in 2005, Tan Sri Limkokwing first began creating a blueprint for his first campus in Africa.

The first campus opened at Fairgrounds Mall in May 2007 but due to overwhelming demand, a second campus had to be opened in Block Six the following month.

By July 2008, Limkokwing University Botswana had moved into a purpose-built campus – the biggest Limkokwing campus to date – eclipsing even the main campus in Cyberjaya.

In 2015, it was recognised as the Best Private University in the country at the Botswana Tertiary Education Fair.

A decade on, over 950 students graduated in Gaborone on 6 October 2017, with Tan Sri Limkokwing in attendance at the historic occasion.

“Today, 10 years later we have graduated some 14,000 young people who are today the most accomplished in their chosen fields, not only in this country but anywhere in Africa,” he said in keynote address at the convocation.

At the same event, Botswana’s President, Honourable Mokgweetsi Masisi, paid tribute to the University.

“I am consciously aware that the University is a unique and hugely successfully global institution which, while being unconventional, nevertheless adheres to high quality assurance standards and offers a portfolio of courses directly relevant to the economies of developing countries such as Botswana.”