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Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics

Botho University · Gaborone & Francistown

About this programme

You learn to design and manage the technology healthcare runs on - electronic health records, health data analytics and clinical decision-support tools that help medical staff make better decisions. The course sits between healthcare and computing, so you study how care is delivered as well as how to build and secure the systems behind it. Graduates work in hospitals, public health bodies and health technology companies.

Entry requirement

Entry requirement: at least 34 points.

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Programme facts

QualificationBSc
InstitutionBotho University
Faculty / schoolHealth and Education
Duration4 years
LocationGaborone
Minimum points34
AccreditationBQA Accredited
Funding / sponsorshipGovernment Sponsorship Available
Demand outlookHRDC forecasts about 133 openings a year in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2025). Years of backlog: not shown. Withheld. Table 31 lists Information Technology and Science & Technology as separate fields, and IT roles are near-certainly counted across both, so the openings figure for this field alone is not a sound denominator. Dividing by it would describe the way the source is structured rather than the job market. Graduates per opening: not shown. Withheld for the same denominator reason as the backlog figure. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41 and Appendix 3 pp.66-76; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22.

Careers this programme leads to

IT Support Specialist Systems Analyst Software Developer Database Administrator Network Administrator Web Developer Business Analyst ICT Officer Application Support Analyst IT Project Coordinator

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