Kimpa Vita University (UNIKIVI) is a public institution with administrative, financial, and academic autonomy, in accordance with the law and its statutes. It is one of the institutions in Angola's higher education subsystem, in both its pedagogical and scientific aspects, offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses across various scientific fields, to be defined by its academic units.

Although officially established as a university in the VII region, its creation involved the integration of technical and professional units.

The emergence of this university, with its new academic teaching units (faculties, institutes, and schools), will require the creation of necessary conditions to improve teaching and administrative services, including the rehabilitation and construction of physical infrastructures for academic and administrative facilities (classrooms, amphitheaters, auditoriums, laboratories, coordination offices, faculty offices, restrooms, and other administrative installations).

Starting in 2011, the first undergraduate and bachelor's programs will be launched. Postgraduate programs, initially at the Master's level, will begin after one academic year, as part of a regional policy to qualify university lecturers, prepare advanced professional cadres, and enhance both pure and applied research activities. Specialized and updated Master's courses will be offered through the university's academic units, followed by Doctoral programs later on.

Recently, the government's plans for UNIKIVI have focused on the need for a university complex, referred to as the University Campus.

The Provincial Government of Uíge has made available a land area of 1,500 hectares to UNIKIVI, located between the Condo Benza village and Casseche, Uíge Municipality. This site, located 7 km from downtown Uíge, has coordinates E 14°28'00'' and S 7°35'00'' and is poised for imminent occupation and development. Similarly, the Provincial Government of Kwanza-Norte has allocated a 1,000-hectare area to UNIKIVI in Kilombo, Cazengo Municipality, N'dalatando, Kwanza-Norte province.

Currently, UNIKIVI is working on initiatives to facilitate the construction of the University City in Uíge and its University Campus in Kwanza-Norte.

Today, Kimpa Vita University, located in the VII Academic Region of Uíge and Kwanza-Norte, with its headquarters in the City of Uíge, was established by the Council of Ministers through Decree No. 12 of May 2009, replacing the former University Center of Uíge.

Academic Units:

- Faculty of Law  

- Faculty of Economics  

- Uíge Polytechnic Higher School  

- Kwanza-Norte Higher School