However, the university was founded approximately three years before the independence of South Sudan.
[2] The Catholic University of South Sudan opened with 50 pioneer students on 29 September 2008, as a private institution of higher education.
[3] The Jesuit Father Michael Schultheis served as its first vice-chancellor (2008–2013), followed by Dr fr.
However, the Faculties of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Engineering is based in the city of Wau.
The second campus in Wau also offers mining and mineralogy studies, implemented by 2014.