The mission:

To provide quality services and produce students who are key assets and committed to developing their potential, encouraging, and rewarding them to foster quality in graduate education. Our core business is to provide quality teaching and learning in a supportive environment. Our genuine desire is to serve develop ours comminute. We will spare no efforts to provide high quality academic programmes and encourage research efforts to stimulate discovery and innovation.

Values:

• Integrity: always Behaving ethically, honestly, open minded and objectively; being impartial and transparent with our colleagues, collaborators, stakeholders, clients, and the people of South Sudan; and exercising sound stewardship of our resources.
• Excellence: Pursuing excellence in all that we do – in our research and innovation, in our collaborations, in execution of our programmes, in our support to firms, and in our delivery of our common corporate services.
• Respect: Valuing and respecting the knowledge, expertise, and diversity of our colleagues, our workplace, our collaborators, our stakeholders, and our clients to have an impact on South Sudan and the world.
• Creativity: Harnessing our imagination, passion for excellence, scientific exploration, technology, and innovation to generate new knowledge, new technologies, new business processes, and new collaborations for a better NRDC and a better world.

Objectives:

The objectives of the College are therefore to:

Providing High-quality Education through:

1. Attracting and retaining top-notch faculty and excellent researchers.
2. Selecting outstanding students to pursue postgraduate studies.
3. Qualifying top-tier scholars holding higher scientific degrees.
4. Adopting a continuous improvement strategy to develop study programme.
5. Enhancing learning resources, (i. e., References, journals, Internet, including others)
6. Creating best in class and innovative academic programmes and seeking to obtain approval on them for implementation.
7. Improving communication and learning skills.

Achievements

1. Staffing of Postgraduate College:

Dean, Deputy Dean, Registrar, Deputy Registrar and Head of Statistics have been appointed.

1. Fully Established and Functional Board of Postgraduate Studies & Scientific Research.
2. Development of Postgraduate Policies.

1. Rules & Regulations (Postgraduate Program Guidelines) – 2019
2. Students Application Form

• Supervisor Registration Form

1. Ethics Consent & Approval Form
2. Examination Process Form
3. Research Proposal Forwarding Form

• Notice of Intention to Submit a Diploma/Masters/PhD Degree.
• Nomination as External/Internal Examiner for Evaluation of Masters/PhD Thesis/Dissertation.

1. Oral Examination Form
2. Candidates Results Form for Senate
3. Consent Form

• Nomination of Candidate Form
• Referee’s Confidential Report
• Criteria for Evaluation of Higher Degree’s Proposals

1. Supervisor Registration

• Confirmation of Candidature
• Grading System

1. Development of Postgraduate Curriculum for the following programs:

Table1: Shows postgraduate programmes by colleges.

Achievements

1. Staffing of Postgraduate College:

Dean, Deputy Dean, Registrar, Deputy Registrar and Head of Statistics have been appointed.

1. Fully Established and Functional board of Postgraduate Studies & Scientific Research.
2. Development of Postgraduate Policies.

1. Rules & Regulations (Postgraduate Program Guidelines) – 2019
2. Students Application Form

• Supervisor Registration Form

1. Ethics Consent & Approval Form
2. Examination Process Form
3. Research Proposal Forwarding Form

• Notice of Intention to Submit a Diploma/Masters/PhD Degree.
• Nomination as External/Internal Examiner for Evaluation of Masters/PhD Thesis/Dissertation.

1. Oral Examination Form
2. Candidates Results Form for Senate
3. Consent Form

• Nomination of Candidate Form
• Referee’s Confidential Report
• Criteria for Evaluation of Higher Degree’s Proposals

1. Confirmation of Candidature

• Grading System
• Application Form
• 10 Steps to Settle In

1. Proposed Programs from Colleges and Development of Postgraduate Curricula for seven programs in detailed.

Table2: shows the list of Proposed Postgraduate Programs by College

1. Summary of Postgraduate Programmes by Colleges

1. Curriculum Development Update

Postgraduate Programs with complete curriculum.

1. D. in Statistics and Operations Research
2. Master of Science in Statistics and Operations Research
3. Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and Operations Research
4. D. in Agronomy
5. Master of Science in Agronomy
6. Postgraduate Diploma in Agronomy
7. D. in Conflict Resolution and Peace building

Conclusion:

The College of Postgraduate Studies & Scientific Research has completed all the postgraduate policies, forms, and curricula for some programmes. Thus, it’s in the path of launching students’ admission for academic year 2024/25.

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Prof. Dr. Gabriel Makuei Deng Makuei (Ph.D.)

Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies & Scientific Research

Dr. JGMUST