Executive Summary:

Few members founded a new university in South Sudan. It is to be called University of South Sudan. Our mission is to provide educational opportunities for the new nation that is currently lacking a highly qualified work force. Our school is to provide quality teaching and learning opportunities as its product. We have a less competitive market in South Sudan as there is lack of advance learning institutions. There is no foreseeable risk but plenty of opportunity. Our university is being founded by qualified team of individuals led by Dr. John Chuol Kuek, a marriage and family counselor and Psychologist; Mathew Riek and Mr. Kueth Yul, both are master degree holders. The university is yet to recruit more faculties and specialized staff. We are working on raising starting capital and we are seeking willing investors to join us. In order to build the school, we project a budget of $1,050,000.
South Sudan, one of the youngest and newest nations in the world, is facing the challenge of building a nation. The Republic of South Sudan gained independence on July 9, 2011 from Sudan. Before the independence of South Sudan, Sudan was a nation plagued by warfare and poverty. The history of South Sudan is intertwined with the history of Sudan as a whole. Their history goes back to the colonization of Africa by Europeans and Muslims in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In the 20th century Sudan was ruled jointly by the British and Egyptian governments and gained independence on January 1, 1956. Since then Sudan has faced many problems from political corruption to civil war eventually leading to South Sudan’s independence.
The “school life expectancy” index, which simply means the number of years that a student is expected to attend school, is four years. This, is consistent with the data, albeit minimal, that exists on the level of literacy in South Sudan. While there have been three traditional regions in South Sudan, with 10 states embedded within these regions, there existed only one university in each region. Recently, attempts have begun to establish a university within each state, yet these efforts are hampered by many obstacles, lack of finances, having no specific mission, and an ill-defined budget. 
In 2010, South Sudan held a ground-breaking nation-wide conference entitled “The Education Reconstruction Development Forum,” which outlined the necessities and challenges that the country and in particular the Ministry of Education faced in redefining and reinventing the educational system. The ministry outlined several important challenges which included a significant gender gap between teachers and students, very high drop-out rates for females beginning in elementary school and proceeding through secondary school, a significant shortage of classroom facilities as well as support facilities for teachers and staff, a critical shortage of teachers “qualified” teachers for basic education and lecturers for secondary education as well as university faculty, staff positions occupied by “unproductive pensioners”, underpaid, and at times, unpaid teachers and support staff, and up to 40% of all teachers as “forced volunteer teachers”. 
In addition, this conference concluded that basic educational materials were missing throughout many parts of the country, especially where high percentages of school-aged youth resided, an absence of horizontal and vertical coordination in order to produce a student base that could feed into higher education, especially universities, political interference in the  disposition of key reforms, especially in the acceptance and support of females in schools at all levels, lack of confidence on the part of parents and communities in maintaining constant attendance in school, and a disjointed curriculum that maintained roots in Arabic while attempting to infuse an English-language curriculum which is based on the “8+4+4” system of eight years of primary school, four years of secondary school, and four years of a university education. Yet, in spite of the many problems that are endemic to the young educational system in South Sudan, it is estimated that up to 1/3 of all South Sudanese have some access to the Internet. The lack of educational development in the country prompted the decision to establish a new university in South Sudan to help foster a higher educational development, such the University of South Sudan (USS). ​

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