The mission of the University is to contribute in addressing the educational needs of thousands of youths yearning for quality university education emphasizing on professionalism, creativity, research for development by:

Seeking and using available and transferable technologies to make our graduates favourably competitive in a global economy.

Offering opportunity to unleash and transfer invaluable knowledge and practical experience of locally available but un-tapped national and international manpower.

Going for quality rather than quantity in admitting students.

Ensuring that the students receive an education that enables them to become immediately operational upon leaving the university or can be self-employed.

The university’s ultimate goal is to train the next generation of youths whose contribution in taking their communities out of the vicious cycle of un-employment and poverty  make BUST the place to have belonged. 

In accordance with the philosophy conceived by the founding fathers, BUST is not just another university added to the long list of universities in Cameroon. Rather, it aims at addressing the un-addressed issues in Cameroon education, consolidating the historic cultural diversity, unleashing the rich natural and human resources with which this region and indeed Cameroon in general and Africa as a whole is endowed with and galvanizing them towards raising productivity and decreasing un-employment and poverty in a bid to raise the standard of living of the masses.

The university’s program takes cognisance of the local economy, which is characterized by individual peasant ventures, common initiative groups and a few corporate enterprises; which strive at stimulating self-actualisation, self reliant development, sole proprietorship and medium scale industries as stepping stones towards an integrated agro-industrial take off.

PROFESSIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION AT BUST

The Founding Fathers had a dream of building an institution that offered academic opportunities with a practical touch so that its graduates became either self employed or professionally oriented such that they had a comparative advantage over other graduates in the job market. There is therefore concerted effort to professionalize education at BUST.

All programs require some amount of internship, fieldwork and research. The research or final year project results are presented as a write-up accompanied by an on-campus public presentation. All students in the Faculty of Agriculture carry out farm projects on individual plots. Students in the Health Sciences do several internships of several months during the course of their studies. In the Faculty of Education it is Teaching Practice and in the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management Sciences, it is on-the-job experience at various financial institutions.

There could be no better way than these endeavours to strengthen the capacity of BUST graduates to respond rapidly and confidently to professional exigencies.

The university is located one km. off mile six out of Bamenda Town on the Bamenda - Bambui Highway and surrounded by a number of rolling hills and seasonal streams. It is adjacent to Star Light College campus which is part of the university and covers an area of 78 Hectares.

An exceptionally picturesque landscape of undulating windswept hillsides with perennial waterfalls (prospective source for micro-hydro electric projects) peaceful rolling valleys clothed in evergreen raffia palm bushes – thus providing in the words of H.E. Mr. George Staples, former US Ambassador to Cameroon, “an ideal atmosphere for serious studies, unique in Cameroon,” in town yet away from town. There are equally 10 hectares of university land in Mendankwe and 200 ha. acquired in the Ntem Valley in Donga Mantung Division.

These large areas are for large-scale agro – industrial activities including land to be further allocated for activities of the faculty of agriculture. University farm: A small university farm is located near the Campus and offers excellent opportunity for both staff and students to put into practice lessons taught in the lectures.

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