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Municipal utilities fail in the unaccounted cubic metre: illegal connections, a kiosk attendant who keeps two books, a vacuum truck that never reaches the informal settlement. This degree starts there. You will map a service area, cost a leak-detection plan a town can staff, and write a bilingual notice a customer can actually read—without stamping drawings as a professional engineer. African Future University centres African municipal practice: tariff politics, peri-urban expansion, and donor projects that install hardware nobody can maintain. Digital billing is taught as systems that fail when connectivity and identity documents fail. The award is academic. It is not PE/CEng, not a utility licence, and not UN-Water employment. It is for managers who must keep a kiosk honest when the borehole diesel is stolen. You will compare a networked urban utility with a peri-urban kiosk system, including landlord politics over on-site sanitation. Identity-checked exams test operations memos, not PE drawings. No UN-Water employment is implied. Study is tuition-free online aside from the examination fee, and peri-urban kiosks are core cases rather than delayed versions of a capital network. MSc Water, Sanitation and Municipal Utilities is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Service Areas, Kiosks, and Informal Supply through Service Areas, Kiosks, and Informal Supply; Non-Revenue Water as Governance; Billing, Disconnection Ethics, and Identity; Faecal-Sludge Logistics without Theatre; On-Site Sanitation and Landlord Politics; Public Toilets as Municipal Enterprises, and finish on Writing for Councils and Utilities. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Diagnose non-revenue water as an operations and governance problem Design a kiosk or FSM logistics loop a town can staff Write bilingual customer and council notes Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: utility operations, sanitation logistics, municipal finance and regulation, and a service-area capstone. Identity-checked exams. No engineering laboratory is claimed.
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Tuition is free. Examinations are free. There is no exam fee. Study from anywhere in the world.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU761 | Service Areas, Kiosks, and Informal Supply Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is Service Areas, Kiosks, and Informal Supply.
| 3 |
| AFU762 | Non-Revenue Water as Governance Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is Non-Revenue Water as Governance.
| 3 |
| AFU763 | Billing, Disconnection Ethics, and Identity Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Billing, Disconnection Ethics, and Identity.
| 3 |
| AFU764 | Pumping, Diesel, and Downtime as Management Data Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Pumping, Diesel, and Downtime as Management Data.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU765 | Faecal-Sludge Logistics without Theatre Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is Faecal-Sludge Logistics without Theatre.
| 3 |
| AFU766 | On-Site Sanitation and Landlord Politics Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is On-Site Sanitation and Landlord Politics.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU769 | Tariffs, Subsidies, and Council Politics Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is Tariffs, Subsidies, and Council Politics.
| 3 |
| AFU770 | EN/FR Municipal Administration Documents Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is EN/FR Municipal Administration Documents.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU773 | WASH Operations Research Methods Students describe how the good, place, or practice is produced, moved, and lost. The module is WASH Operations Research Methods.
| 3 |
| AFU774 | Service-Area Diagnosis Students choose a measure a manager could collect and say how it would be wrong. The module is Service-Area Diagnosis.
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Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English + French assessment options. Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
This is a fully online award. You study from your country. No student visa and no campus relocation are required.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. African Future University publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
Start an application on this website. Progress is saved from the first step. Admissions: admissions@afutureuni.com.
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| AFU767 | Public Toilets as Municipal Enterprises Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Public Toilets as Municipal Enterprises.
| 3 |
| AFU768 | Outbreak Hygiene as Operations (Not Clinical Practice) Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Outbreak Hygiene as Operations (Not Clinical Practice).
| 3 |
| 3 |
| AFU771 | Donor Hardware versus Maintenance Budgets Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Donor Hardware versus Maintenance Budgets.
| 3 |
| AFU772 | Digital Billing when Connectivity Fails Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Digital Billing when Connectivity Fails.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| AFU775 | Writing for Councils and Utilities Students compare two interventions and who gains or pays. The module is Writing for Councils and Utilities.
| 3 |
| AFU776 | Capstone: Municipal Utilities Operations File Students recommend one operational change with the evidence attached. The module is Capstone: Municipal Utilities Operations File.
| 3 |