Bindura University of Science Education is a Zimbabwean university offering courses mainly in science education, though recently courses in commerce and computer science have been introduced. The main campus is located 5 km from Bindura town center, with a separate campus which houses the department of computer science on the Trojan Road. The origins of the Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) can be traced to the Zimbabwe-Cuba Teacher Training Programme, which started in the mid-1980s. The programme used to send Zimbabwean student teachers to Cuba for training in Science Education. The programme was relocated to Zimbabwe in 1995 for economic reasons. A decision was then made to set up a college in Bindura under the auspices of the University of Zimbabwe, but which would be turned into a full fledged university within a period of two to four years. The College admitted its first group of 125 students in March 1996. An Act of Parliament, the Bindura University of Science Education Act, was passed in February 2000 conferring University status to the College.