Aga Khan Academies

Welcome to the Aga Khan Academies

The Academies educate future homegrown leaders regardless of socioeconomic background and help improve teaching in the regions where they are located.
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Academic Programme

The curriculum focuses on the development of critical thinking and analysis of issues with an emphasis on multicultural understanding and awareness.
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Leadership

The Academies’ programmes aim to develop students who are ethical, public-minded, and possess a pluralistic outlook, and who will become future leaders of their home countries.
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Living on Campus

Residential life at the Academy complements and extends the academic experience and includes a rich array of activities and leadership opportunities to enhance students’ learning and growth.
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Admissions

Admission is competitive and based on merit. This is broadly defined as exceptional intellectual potential, leadership, commitment to learning, strong sense of integrity, and the desire to work towards and instigate positive change.
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Recent news

Student Exchange 2019: Reflecting upon Week One

15 September 2019

Students have already completed the first week of the Exchange Programme at the Aga Khan Academies in Mombasa and Hyderabad. Elizabeth McFarlane, International Exchange Manger, shares her thoughts on the first week.

Student Exchange 2019: The Journey Begins

05 September 2019

The Aga Khan Academies Student Exchange 2019 is fully underway! Over the next three months, 35 students from the Academies in Mombasa and Hyderabad will ‘exchange’ places, beginning a journey of self-disovery in a new environment.

Raphael Mwachiti: Academy student uses haptic technology to help the visually impaired

02 September 2019

AKA Mombasa student Raphael Mwachiti was one of three winners in the Ryerson Sandbox Basecamp competition, in which he was awarded a grant of $5,000 CAD.