Currently the institution has a number of campuses in and around the city, including some in the high density suburb of Mucheke, most notably the school of tourism and hospitality situated on a hill on what used to be a hotel.
There are also newly built campuses to the west in the industrial zone of the city, whose buildings stand out along the Bulawayo highway.
The report had proposed the devolution of teachers’ and technical colleges into degree-awarding institutions that would eventually become universities in their own right.
The university offers degree and diploma programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the arts, commerce, education and the sciences.
[3] In 2018, two Great Zimbabwe University lecturers, Munyaradzi Mawere and Tapuwa Rubaya, started a publishing company in Masvingo to promote indigenous stories and encourage the growth of a reading culture.