The Faculty of Science is one of the newly established Faculties in Mwenge Catholic University portending fast expansion in terms of academic programmes and learners.

The Faculty is dedicated to the contribution of education and research of the highest quality within a comprehensive range of scientific turfs.

The Faculty offers students a journey of learning and discovery into biological, natural and computational science; the very fundamental disciplines that underlie contemporary knowledge creation.

The faculty has a community of young and dedicated scholars whose research and teaching work is meant to expand the precincts of the learners’ knowledge and imaginations in preparation for wide-ranging careers and lifelong learning.

Most of our undergraduate students go on to serve in various professional capacities in sciences and education; having been well prepared through attachments and most importantly, prodigious and inspiring teaching.

The programmes established at the Faculty of Science offers courses that aim at satisfying students’ burning interest in science while making them competent enough to meet societal actual needs.

The Faculty of Science is under the leadership of the Dean of Faculty who is the head of both academic and administrative affairs. The Dean reports directly to the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, Research and Consultancy (DVC-ARC). There are two Departments under the Faculty and the Departments are being led by the Heads of Departments.

The Department are;

• Department of Natural Sciences & Information Technology (DNSIT)
• Department of Agriculture, Earth & Environmental Sciences (DAEES)

The academic programmes are under respective Department. There are programme conveners who manage the specific programmes within the Departments. There are various Faculty committees that manage the actual activities of the Faculty.

The committees are:

• Faculty Undergraduate Studies Committee
• Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee
• Faculty Research Innovations and Consultancy Committee
• Faculty Field Practical Training Committee
• Faculty Quality Assurance (FQA) Committee

The decisions at the Faculty level are executed by the Faculty board that is constituted by the Dean of the Faculty as the chair, the Heads of Departments, Chairpersons of the Faculty committees, Senior Faculty members (professors), one support/technical staff and student representatives (undergraduate programmes).

In the Same manner, the Departments are governed through Departmental Boards constituted accordingly. The Faculty Board normally deliberates on the issues that emanate from the Departmental Board meetings and the Faculty of Science management.

Currently, the Faculty of Science has got thirty nine (39) academic staff members with a wide range of teaching experiences and diverse backgrounds of specializations. There are also four (4) support staff members. Indeed, the Faculty brings together leading academicians from a wide variety of backgrounds, working together to ensure that broad perspectives of systems are used, to challenge thinking and formulate approaches and methodologies to life and naturals sciences.

The Faculty of Science is organized into two departments. The Departments are:

• The Department of Natural Sciences & Information Technology (DNSIT).
• Department of Agriculture, Earth & Environmental Sciences (DAEES).

TheFaculty of Science has got four undergraduate academic programmes:

• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics (BSMST)
• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (BSc.Chem)
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc.Cs)
• Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies (BAGEN)
• Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology.

The Faculty of Science has a clear mission to primarily carry out research that increases the fundamental understanding of the world, which is essential to lay the scientific foundation required for more applied research.

The undergraduate programmes that are being offered at the Faculty, have very close relationship to research at the forefront, and provides a large amount of flexibility for those who want to advance to various specialization at postgraduate levels.