SMU Higher Institute

Private institution (lists a licence, bachelor's or higher) · Buea, South-West region

Authorised to open

4 July 2014

Date of the opening authorisation (or creation agreement)

Fields of study listed

Filières, counted once per diploma they lead to

Diplomas named

HND, Licence/Bachelor, Master

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)	11 March 2014	14/0028/MINESUP/SG/DDES
Opening authorisation (autorisation d’ouverture)	4 July 2014	14/0398/MINESUP/SG/DDES

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.

HND

Business and Finance	Accountancy - Banking and Finance - Insurance - Marketing-Trade-Sale
Communication	Journalism
Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering Technology - Building Science and Technology
Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Construction
Computer Engineering	Computer Engineering (Options : Software Engineering ; Computer Science and Networks ; Date Base Management)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	Electrical Power Systems

Bachelor and Master Degree’s sous la tutelle académique de Saint John of Cross University

Arts, Education and Humanities	Communication - Education - Philosophy - Theology
Business and Public Policy	Public Administration - International Relations - Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies - Human Right Local Government Administration
Business Administration	Accounting - Banking and Finance - Management - Human Resource Management - Petroleum Management - Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Marketing - Ports and Maritime Management - Insurance and Risk Management
Health and Human Services	Nursing - Medical Science - Medical Laboratory Science - Public Health - Medical Microbiology and Parasitology - Clinical Psychology - Physician Assistant
Science, Engineering and Technology	Agriculture

Bachelor and Master Degree’s sous la tutelle académique de l’Universite de

Engineering	Civil and Architectural Engineering – Computer and Electrical Engineering – Industrial Engineering – Mechanical Engineering – Software Engineering – Computer Network and Telecommunication System Engineering - Education
Social Sciences	Arts et Communication – Philosophy

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. 46 of the South-West region, page 278 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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