TCU Bachelors Degree Admission Guidebook 2025/2026

TCU Bachelors Degree Admission Guidebook 2025/2026

TCU Bachelors Degree Admissions Guide Book 2025/2026, Bachelor’s Degree Admission Guidebook for Form Six Applicants, . The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) is a government agency which was established on the 1st July 2005, under the Universities Act, Cap. 346 of the Laws of Tanzania with a legal mandate to recognise, register and accredit universities in Tanzania. It also regulates local or foreign university-level programmes, coordinates the proper functioning of universities and ensures a harmonised higher education system in the country.

About TCU Guide Book

The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has prepared this Bachelor’s Degree Admission Guidebook to guide prospective applicants/students, parents/guardians, sponsors and other stakeholders on the procedures and criteria for students’ admission to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Tanzania.

The Guidebook is further intended to provide information about institutions which offer Bachelor’s degree programmes, accredited programmes in the respective admission cycle, minimum entry requirements, programmes admission capacities, and duration of each programme.

Applications for admission into Bachelor’s degrees in HEIs are directly submitted through the online admissions systems of the respective institutions. The process is interactive in such a way that the applicant can easily and conveniently follow the instructions given by the system in the course of applying. In addition, the Guidebook has the following information:

a) Applications and admission procedures;

b) Admission eligibility requirements;

c) Admission entry schemes and pathways;

d) Approved institutions and programmes;

e) Minimum entry requirements for each programme;

f) Important dates to be followed during the application process; and

g) Quality assurance fees

Applications and Admission Procedure

i) Applications are conducted online through the respective institutions’ Online Admission Systems/Portals accessible on their websites.

ii) Applicants should ensure that they have adequate information for the programmes of their choice by considering available capacities, one’s passes, competitions, and career aspirations.

iii) Applicants should ensure that their names and index numbers used in the applications match with those used during their secondary schools or college examinations.

iv) Applicants should carefully read and understand the guidelines and admission requirements of programmes anticipated to apply for, provided in this Guidebook and on the websites of the individual institutions, and ensure that they are conversant with the application process.

v) In processing admission of foreign applicants holding preuniversity qualifications, it shall be the responsibility of the receiving university to determine the equivalencies of foreign qualifications to Tanzania’s Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education qualifications. For foreign applicants holding foreign university awards, it shall be the responsibility of the receiving university to process and obtain assessment of recognition of awards from TCU.

vi) Tanzanians possessing foreign qualifications, should obtain equivalencies from NECTA/NACTVET, get index number and AVN, apply as Tanzanians and compete with fellow Tanzanians for available admission slots through the systems connected with TCU integrated admission system. It shall be the responsibility of the applicant to apply and obtain recognition of a foreign university awards from TCU and submit the same to the university during application for admission.

vii) Applicants admitted in more than one institution shall be required to confirm their admissions to the most preferred programmes and institutions.

viii) Queries related to applications or admissions have to be lodged to the respective institutions that the applicant has applied for admission.

ix) Applicants who do not have at least two principal subject passes in their Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination results with at least a total of 4.0 points are advised not to apply as they do not meet the minimum requirements for admission.

Admission Eligibility Requirements 

TCU Bachelors Degree Admission Guidebook 2025/2026