The above University Coat of Arms was adopted in 1985 and is described in heraldic terms as follows:
Azure, in fess point an open book argent leathered gules garnished or ensigned with a mullet of the third fimbriated argent debruised by the Zimbabwe Bird also or and a point of the last masoned sable in the fashion of a portion of the wall of Great Zimbabwe all within a bordure gold.
University Motto
"Educating to Change Lives"