•  HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:The idea of a University in the South was first raised in March 1965 when, in response to the demand from Southern members, the Round Table Conference resolved to establish a University in the Southern Sudan.However, due to various problems, this was not implemented.In 1971, the Erkweit Conference, which was held in Juba that year, recognized the need for a training facility in Juba and recommended that the University of Khartoum should open a branch of its Extra-Mural studies in Juba.This programme was duly started by the University of Khartoum in November 1975.After the Addis Ababa Agreement, the first practical steps in establishing a University in Juba were taken by the Regional Government when a University of Juba Project was formed in 1973. The Project was chaired by the Regional Minister of Education, and Dr. Joseph Awad Morgan, as its Director,made internal and external efforts to outline the general philosophy and objective of the University.

•  In 1975, the President of the Republic, His Excellency, Gaffar Mohammad Nimeri decreed the establishment of the University of Juba and on the 9th. of  November 1975, its Act came into force. The Act simultaneously established the College of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies and the College of Social and Economic Studies. 
•  In 1977 the Council of the University established the College of Education and the College of Adult Education and Training.In 1978, the Council also established the College of Medicine.
•  In April 1976, the Commission of European Communities and the Government of the Sudan held discussions aimed at funding a programme of study for the new University.  The Inter-University Council of Britain accepted to be the coordinator of this study, to be under-taken by an international group of academicians. The report was completed in April 1977. On 15th September of the same year, teaching started with 150 students in four colleges. On 6th October, the University of Juba was formally opened by the President of the Republic amidst great jubilation by the citizens of Juba Town.
•  In 1989,the deans Board decided to transfer the university to Khartoum due to the instability in Juba Town because of the civil war. In Khartoum the university started its function in scattered places. During the period of displacement the university expanded almost about four times in terms of colleges, centers,staff and students.
•  In 1990, the Chairman of the Salvation Revolution Command Council H.E. Lft. General Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir issued the University of Juba Act, signed on the 21st Zul'qaida 1410 Higria, coinciding with the 14th June 1990 A.D. The Act was reviewed and reissued in 1995.
•  Since last May 2002 all colleges with exception of the College of Medicine, had been lumped together in the new campus at AlKadro where they currently function.the university council had already laid down plans for gradual return of the universityto its mother home in Juba Town. 

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