Tanzania, Aug. 6 -- Dar es Salaam. The number of university students dropping out has decreased by 15.56 percent over the past three years, with academic failure, deregistration, and absenteeism remaining the primary reasons for these students leaving their studies.

Statistics from the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) for the year 2025, released recently, indicate that the number of dropout students fell from 2,839 in the 2022/2023 academic year to 2,397 in 2025/2026.

Despite this reduction, 1,824 out of the 2,397 students who dropped out last year left due to academic failure, 350 were deregistered, 208 departed from universities owing to absenteeism, while 15 passed away.

According to those figures, undergraduate students l...