Pioneer Vice Chancellor: Prof Tafah Edocat Edward
Number of students in 2011/2012: 6,669
Expected number of students in 2012/2013: 2,564
Schools/Faculties: Higher Teachers Training College, HTTC, Higher Teachers Technical Training College, HTTTC, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Higher Institute of Commerce and Management.
Departments: Medicine, Nursing, Laboratory Technicians, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer and Mathematics, Zoology and Botany, Micro-Biology, Marketing, Management, Accounting and Finance, Insurance and Security.
Mission: Sustain the Anglo-Saxon mission assigned to the University and fine-tune it to Cameroon’s bicultural character as per text of its creation. Break the yoke of challenges and make the University of Bamenda a veritable higher institution of the future, the Harvard of Africa. Give meaning to the nation’s University reforms in favour of quantitative and qualitative development of human character, pursue a dynamic balance between general and technical education, encourage professionalism of training programmes in public and private higher education institutions and promote Bachelor-Masters-Doctorate, BMD/BMP reforms.