University of Bangui
Université de Bangui | |||||||||||||||||
Georgette Florence Koyt Deballé | |||||||||||||||||
Students | ~6,500 | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | , 4°22′32″N 18°33′48″E / 4.37564°N 18.56335°E | ||||||||||||||||
Colors | Blue, white, green, yellow and red | ||||||||||||||||
Affiliations | AUF, CRUFAOCI | ||||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||||
The University of Bangui (French: Université de Bangui) is a public university located in Bangui, Central African Republic.
History
Before independence in
The FESAC began to come apart in the late 1960s, so on November 12, 1969, the University of Bangui was created by government ordinance. The University of Bangui expanded the focus of study on agriculture to include scientific research, law, economics, rural development and liberal arts.
Student enrollment
At the beginning of the 2000–01 academic year, the higher education sector consisted of only two public institutions, the University of Bangui and the National School of Administration and Judiciary (ENAM), and one private school, the International Preparatory College (College Preparatoire International, CPI). Student enrollment in 1998–99 was 5,486, which represented an increase of nearly 80% in three decades. Today, approximately 6,500 students are enrolled in the post-secondary system.
Enrollment figures indicate that the number of students preparing for the mathematics and physical sciences baccalaureate degrees have significantly increased. At the University of Bangui the proportion of students in mathematics and sciences jumped to 35% in 2000, compared with 8% in 1981.[citation needed]
The percentage of female students remains very low. It varies from 3% in science to 16% in law and the human sciences. Young women are facing strong pressures in the society to leave school and take up their traditional role of housekeepers. Ethnic minorities, such as
Public figures of the university
- Gaston Mandata N'Guérékata (1953–present), former vice-chancellor
- Faustin-Archange Touadéra (1957–present), former vice-chancellor
- Laurent Ngbongbo Ngbonga (1960–present)
- Sylvie Ngouadakpa
See also
- Euclid Consortium - UBRC's international extension