Zambian Open University Courses 2025/2026

Welcome to the Zambian Open University Courses page. This page of our website shows all the Courses offered at Zambian Open University (ZAOU).

The Zambian Open University offer all kinds of Courses including, Short Courses, Professional Courses, Certificate Courses, Diploma Courses, Degree Courses, Masters Courses and PhD Courses. The Zambian Open University Intake for 2025/2026 also features some Online Courses.

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Before you head on to read the information that we have gather on this page about the Zambian Open University Online Application for 2025/2026, we entreat our readers especially students, parents and teachers to spend some few minutes to read more about Zambian Open University.

About Zambian Open University

In February 2002 six founding members working with other colleagues from the University of Zambia (UNZA), academic and corporate world thought of establishing the first private University to meet the demand for higher education that had arisen in the country.

School of Education

The School of Education is one of the two original Schools of the Zambian Open University (ZAOU) that started as soon as the University opened its doors to students in 2005. The other pioneer school was the School of Law and Social Sciences.

The School of Education started with three programmes namely Bachelor of Education in Adult Education, Bachelor of Education in Primary Education and Bachelor of Education in Secondary Education. Later the School developed three other programmes: Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Education, Bachelor of Education in Guidance and Counselling and Bachelor of Education in Special Education. In 2012, the University decided to abolish the School of Media, Performing and Fine Arts. As a result, Fine Arts was absorbed into the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, while Theatre Arts was incorporated in the School of Education, thus giving seven programmes to the School of Education, making it the biggest School in the University.

School of Business

The School of Business Studies aims at equipping students with critical and state of the art managerial skills, Including leadership, sound judgment, entrepreneurship, ethical business decision-making, and sharp analytical thinking. The School also aims at upgrading the knowledge and skills of established managers in government and industry.

The School of business Studies offers a number of degree programmes which include Bachelors, Masters and PhD programmes. The Programmes are offered on full-time and open and distance learning. you will find a detailed outline of our degree programmes below link.

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences has three Departments, namely, Development Studies, Governance and Public Administration and Fine Arts. Each of these Departments offers a Degree Programme.

School of Law

The School of Law at Zambian Open University is the second law school to be established in Zambia after the school of law at the University of Zambia. It is one of the oldest schools at ZAOU. The School of Law is currently the biggest Law School in Zambia. It is proving to be a highly competitive law school judged by the high percentage in comparative terms to those from other law schools, who pass the ZIALE examinations and thus enter the legal practitioners market.

School of Agriculture

The School aims at producing graduates that posses agricultural skills to develop the agricultural sector. The school offers several n degree programmes.

Postgraduate School

The Zambian Open University started offering pot-graduate studies in 2006 with an intake of 15 students in one programme – Master’s degree of Education in Literacy and Development. Since then twelve more postgraduate programmes have been introduced; and there are currently a total of twelve programmes

List of Zambian Open University Courses 2025/2026

The Zambian Open University, a registered and approved University by the Zambia Higher Education Authority, invites applications from eligible persons for admission into its courses.

BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMMES (Duration 4 years)

School of Agricultural Sciences