Kigali Independent University (ULK) on Monday started offering several masters programmes. The Higher Education Council recently accredited the university to offer nine masters programmes.The programmes include; Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business in Finance (MFIN), Master of Accounting (MAcc) and Master of Science in Economics (MSc).Others include; Master of Governance (MGov), Master of Development Studies (MDS), Master of Laws in Public International Law (LLM/PIL), Master of International Economics and Business Law (LLM/IEL) and Master of Science in Internet System (MSI).The university founder, Prof. Rwigamba Balinda, said that the focus is to enable students to compete favourably on the job market. "In addition to existing programmes, we are going to give free lessons in English and ICT to the students,” The Rector, Dr Ezekiel Sekibibi, said that the university was able to come up with the programmes after various consultations with various stakeholders.