The college sets policy guidelines for admitting applicants wishing to join its academic programmes leading to the following awards: certificates, diplomas and undergraduate degrees. The major purpose of such guidelines is to set basic quality standards for entrance into academic programmes as a prerequisite of the college’s Quality Assurance Policy.

International applicants whose education systems in their mother countries differ from Uganda’s MUST have their documents first equated to Ugandan standards by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) or Uganda National Council for Higher Education (UNCHE). It is the applicant's responsibility to submit admissible documents.

It should be noted that CBIT does not apply a weighting system during the admissions exercise the way it is done in public universities. The College considers the minimum standards of; 3 passes for a certificate, one principal pass 2 subsidiary passes for a diploma and two principal passes at an ‘A’ level for a degree or the equivalent.