Higher Institute of Sciences and Technology (HIST)
Private institution (lists BTS, HND or other diplomas) · Douala, Littoral region
Authorised to open
16 October 2018
Date of the opening authorisation (or creation agreement)
Fields of study listed
12
Filières, counted once per diploma they lead to
Diplomas named
HND
State universities named as academic supervisor
None named
This is MINESUP's 2022 directory (the PDF was produced in January 2023). Institutions may have opened, closed, moved or changed their programmes since; the ministry's website now says there are about 430 private institutions and lists them by name only.
Ministry authorisations
| Order | Date | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Creation agreement (accord de création) | 16 October 2018 | 18-08894/L/MINESUP/SG/DDES/SD-ESUP/SDA/LMN |
| Opening authorisation (autorisation d’ouverture) | 16 October 2018 | 18-08894/L/MINESUP/SG/DDES/SD-ESUP/SDA/LMN |
Programmes in the 2022 directory
Programmes are listed as the directory groups them: by field (filière) with its specialities, and the diploma the group leads to, in the directory's own wording, French or English. Where a group shows no diploma, the directory prints none beside it. A private institution's licence, bachelor's or master's is usually awarded under the academic supervision (tutelle académique) of a state university or another institution, which the wording names.
| Agriculture | Animal production Technology - Crop production Technology - Agro pastoral Adviser - Agropastotal entrepreneuship |
| Thermal and Energy Engineering | Air conditioning and refrigeration - Renewable energy |
| Information and Communication | Journalism - Advertising and Public Relations - Corporate Communication - Editing Printing and Publishing |
| Electrical Engineering | Electronics - Electrotechnics - Electrical Power System - Maintenance of Biomedical Equipment - Maintenance of Industrial System Control - Instrumentation and Regulation |
| Network and telecommunication | Telecommunication - Network and Security |
| Computer Engineering | Computer Engineering - Computer Maintenance - Industrial Computing and Automatism - Computer Graphics and Web Design - E Commerce and Digital Marketing |
| Legal careers | Legal Assistant - Business and Company Law - Private and Public Land Law - Stock Exchange - Customs And Transit |
| Medical and Biomedical Sciences | Nursing - medical laboratory Studies - Pharmacy Technology - Midwifery - physiotherapy - Nutrition and Dietetics - Health Care Management |
| Business and Finance | Accountancy - Banking and Finance - Insurance - Marketing, Trade, Sale - International Trade - Microfinance |
| Management | Assistant manager - Operation of Air Transport - Management of Non-Governmental Organization - Project Management - Human Resource Management - Logistics and Transport Management - Information Systems Management - Local Government Management - Statistics - Port Shipping Management |
| Mechanical Engineering | Metal construction - Mechanical Construction - Mechanical Manufacturing |
| Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering Technology - Roads and Civil Engineering - Topography - Urban planning - Sanitary Installation and Plumbing - Building Science and Technology |
What isn't here
Fees are not in the directory: private institutions set their own, so ask each one. No national fee list is published for the state universities either. The University of Buea's fees page (read 21 October 2026) gives 50,000 FCFA a year for Cameroonian undergraduates and leaves the figure for international undergraduates blank; its graduate programmes start at 150,000 FCFA for Cameroonians and 450,000 FCFA for international students.
No enrolment, fees, admission cut-offs or graduate outcomes are published per institution, so this is a directory, not a matcher. State universities' own programmes are not in the directory.
Entry no. 18 of the Littoral region, page 163 of the directory. Names are as the directory prints them, in capitals and with its own spellings, set in upper and lower case by us. Where the heading also names the promoting body or a person, only the institution's name is kept.
Source: Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur (MINESUP), Cameroon — Répertoire des Institutions Privées d'Enseignement Supérieur, Edition 2022, and the ministry's list of state universities; read on 20 October 2026. Facts re-keyed by CollegeMatcher under Cameroon's Law No. 2000/011 (art. 3) and the Bangui Agreement, Annex VII (facts and data are not protected). The grouping, English labels and counts are ours. Fees: University of Buea, Fees & Scholarships, read on 21 October 2026. Not reviewed or endorsed by the ministry or the university.
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