Qualla: Copperbelt University https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/copperbelt-university-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Copperbelt University https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university Copperbelt University: Introduction https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university/ Photo credit Mike Rosenberg from London, England, CC BY 2.0. The Copperbelt needed its own university. That was the argument the Zambian parliament accepted when it passed Act No. 19 in 1987 and created the Copperbelt University. Until then, the country's engineers, planners, and mining professionals had been trained either abroad or at the University of Zambia in Lusaka, 350 kilometers south of the actual Copperbelt. Kitwe - the heart of Zambia's copper country - had been running a UNZA satellite campus since the 1970s, known formally as the University of Zambia at Ndola and informally as UNZANDO. The Act of Parliament simply recognized what had already become true: the Copperbelt had earned a university of its own.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/copperbelt-university-wp/ktsp-copperbelt-university-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Copperbelt University: Where the Engineers Come From https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university/ Photo credit Per Arne Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0. CBU now has the biggest school of engineering in Zambia, and the range is specific to the country's economic needs. The undergraduate offerings read like a map of what the Copperbelt requires: civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, telecommunications, mechatronics, aeronauti...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/copperbelt-university-wp/ktsp-copperbelt-university-where-the-engineers-come-from.mp3 0:06 2 full Copperbelt University: Buildings, Real Estate, Planning https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university/ Photo credit AMODDO, CC BY-SA 4.0. Alongside engineering, the university built out the largest School of the Built Environment in Zambia. The programs - architecture, real estate, urban and regional planning, construction economics, quantity surveying - address a country urbanizing faster than its infrastructure c...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/copperbelt-university-wp/ktsp-copperbelt-university-buildings-real-estate-planning.mp3 0:06 3 full Copperbelt University: Five Campuses, One University https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university/ Photo credit Original uploader was en:User:Bob at en.wikipedia, Public domain. CBU is not a single campus. The Riverside Main Campus on Jambo Drive in Kitwe is the administrative and academic center, but the university also operates Parklands Campus, a Ndola campus, Kapasa Makasa Campus in Muchinga Province's Chinsali, and a TAZARA Campus dedicated to railw...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/copperbelt-university-wp/ktsp-copperbelt-university-five-campuses-one-university.mp3 0:06 4 full Copperbelt University: The Dag Hammarskjöld Chair https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university/ Photo credit Per Arne Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0. One of the university's named academic positions is the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair for Peace, Human Rights and Conflict Management - an unusual honor for a university focused heavily on engineering and the built environment. The chair recognizes that the UN Secretary-General died in ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/copperbelt-university-wp/ktsp-copperbelt-university-the-dag-hammarskj-ld-chair.mp3 0:06 5 full Copperbelt University: The Graduates You'll Hear About https://qualla.com/copperbelt-university/ Photo credit Per Arne Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two of Zambia's recent Finance Ministers graduated from CBU - Felix C. Mutati and Margaret Mhango Mwanakatwe - which says something about the pipeline from Copperbelt to Cabinet. Alan Kabanshi built his career as an engineer and researcher, part of the technical professional clas...

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