It was located at 2°36′58″S 29°44′34″E﻿ / ﻿2.61611°S 29.74278°E﻿ / -2.61611; 29.74278Coordinates: 2°36′58″S 29°44′34″E﻿ / ﻿2.61611°S 29.74278°E﻿ / -2.61611; 29.74278 in the city of Butare and was established in 1963 by the government in cooperation with the Congregation of the Dominicans from the Province of Quebec, Canada. Its founder and first rector was Father Georges-Henri Lévesque. In 2013, along with all public higher education institutions in Rwanda, it was merged into the newly created University of Rwanda.[1]