[2] Before that, the Butare campus went by the name of National University of Rwanda subsequent its foundation in 1963.

It also held the Nyakibanda Seminary and the Rwandan National Institute of Scientific Research.

The city of Butare has long been regarded as the intellectual capital of the country, while Kigali holds most political power.

The Groupe Scolaire Officiel de Butare is the largest secondary school in Rwanda.

[citation needed] The Ethnographic Museum was built in the early 1990s and is a source of information on the cultural history of the country and the region.