UNCST

REC Approvals

REC Performance Leaderboard

Overall approval rate
76.4%
15,291 approved of 20,003 submissions in the pipeline
Drafts & "Pending Final Submission" excluded — never reached REC review
Where the rate comes from
76.4%
23.5%
15,291 Approved
4,694 Pending / in review
18 Rejected / other
Total approved
15,291
In queue
4,694
Active RECs
42
of 43 accredited
Leader
MUST
2,028 approved

All RECs — ranked by approvals

Sortable table of every accredited REC with approval rate, pending queue, and year-over-year trend
REC Submissions Approved (all-time) Approval rate Pending 2026 approved YoY vs 2025
1 MUST Research Ethics Committee MUST 2,422 2,028 83.7% 393 136 ↓ -69.6%
2 Clarke International University REC CLARKE 1,507 1,324 87.9% 182 40 ↓ -88.2%
3 MAK School of Medicine REC (Mak-SOMREC) Mak-SOMREC 1,311 1,146 87.4% 165 17 ↓ -92%
4 Uganda Management Institute (UMI) REC UMIREC 1,330 1,125 84.6% 204 43 ↓ -95.9%
5 Uganda Christian University REC UCUREC 1,575 904 57.4% 671 67 ↓ -40.7%
6 Gulu University REC GUREC 1,148 878 76.5% 269 38 ↓ -73.2%
7 KIU REC KIU 1,068 840 78.7% 227 15 ↓ -95.8%
8 Makerere University School of Health Sciences REC MAKSHSREC 861 752 87.3% 109 41 ↓ -65.8%
9 Bishop Stuart University (BSU) REC BSU-REC 835 598 71.6% 236 112 ↓ -31.7%
10 MAK School of Public Health REC (SPHREC) SPH 743 592 79.7% 149 31 ↓ -63.5%
11 The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) REC TASO 658 538 81.8% 120 64 ↓ -55.2%
12 Kabale University Research Ethics Committee KABREC 637 533 83.7% 101 14 ↓ -94.5%
13 MAK School of Biomedical Sciences REC (SBSREC) SBS 648 522 80.6% 126 7 ↓ -92.3%
14 Mbale Regional Referral Hospital REC MRRH 597 511 85.6% 86 33 ↓ -67.6%
15 Mildmay Uganda REC (MUREC) MUREC 628 476 75.8% 151 57 ↓ -49.6%
16 Lira University Research Ethics Committee (LUREC) LUREC 479 395 82.5% 84 36 ↓ -66.4%
17 Lacor Hospital Institutional REC LACOR 405 308 76% 97 54 ↓ -36.5%
18 Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences REC BUFHS 357 281 78.7% 75 49 ↓ -32.9%
19 Bugema University Research Ethics Committee (BU-REC) BU-REC 327 266 81.3% 61 43 ↓ -57.8%
20 St Francis Hospital Nsambya REC SFHN 192 171 89.1% 21 19 ↓ -40.6%
21 Hospice Africa Uganda REC HAU 185 152 82.2% 33 13 ↓ -64.9%
22 Infectious Diseases Institute REC IDI-REC 209 144 68.9% 63 13 ↓ -62.9%
23 Uganda National Health Laboratory Services REC UNHL 183 137 74.9% 46 19 ↓ -61.2%
24 Makerere University College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences REC (CAES-REC) CAES-REC 129 117 90.7% 12 16 ↓ -59%
25 Uganda Cancer Institute REC UCI 152 102 67.1% 49 1 ↓ -88.9%
26 JCRC Research Ethics Committee JCRC 150 87 58% 63 3 ↓ -90.3%
27 Makerere University College of Business and Management Sciences REC (CoBAMS-REC) CoBAMS-REC 106 87 82.1% 19 11 ↓ -64.5%
28 Kyambogo University Research Ethics Committee KyUREC 358 81 22.6% 277 17 ↓ -73.4%
29 Mulago Hospital REC (MHREC) MHREC 246 76 30.9% 169 1 ↓ -91.7%
30 Vector Control Division REC VCDR 66 47 71.2% 19 1 ↓ -91.7%
31 Uganda Heart Institute Research Ethics Committee UHIREC 35 24 68.6% 11 1 ↓ -85.7%
32 CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda REC (CCHU-REC) CUREC 35 16 45.7% 18 0 ↓ -100%
33 Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital REC (BNRMH-REC) BNRMH-REC 20 15 75% 5 7 ↓ -12.5%
34 Kawempe National Referral Hospital Research Ethics Committee KNRHREC 17 11 64.7% 6 11 —
35 MAK School of Social Sciences REC MUSSS 282 4 1.4% 278 0 —
36 Mengo Hospital REC MH 35 2 5.7% 33 0 —
37 National HIV/AIDS Research Committee NARC 4 1 25% 3 0 —
38 Busitema Faculty of Science and Education REC BUFSE-REC 1 0 0% 1 0 —
39 Jinja Regional Referral Hospital REC JRRHREC 3 0 0% 3 0 —
40 Makerere University Business School REC MUBS-REC 1 0 0% 1 0 —
41 National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) IACUC NARO IACUC 0 0 0% 0 0 —
42 School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources IACUC SVAR IACUC 15 0 0% 15 0 —
43 UVRI Research Ethics Committee UVRI 43 0 0% 43 0 —