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Founded in 1974, the University of Ouagadougou (UO; french: Université de Ouagadougou) is in the area of Dagnöen Nord (pronounced dag-no-en noor) in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's n ...
. It was officially renamed in 2015 as l’Université Ouaga 1 Professeur Ki-Zerbo. The UO consists of seven Training and Research Units (UFR) and one institute. In 1995 a second campus for professional education known as the University Polytechnique of Bobo (UPB) was opened in the city of
Bobo Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 904,920 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo-Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking population (r ...
A third campus for teacher training/trainers opened in Koudougou in 1996; in 2005, it became the University of Koudougou. The university had around 40,000 students in 2010 (83% of the national population of university students).


Academics


Academic departments and program

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of
Ouagadougou Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's ...
(2005A) consists of seven Training and Research Units (UFR) and one
institute An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...
: UFR Languages, Arts and Communications; UFR
Human sciences Human science (or human sciences in the plural), also known as humanistic social science and moral science (or moral sciences), studies the philosophical, biological, social, and cultural aspects of human life. Human science aims to expand our ...
; UFR Legal and Politic Sciences; UFR Economic Sciences and Management; UFR Applied Sciences; UFR Health Sciences; UFR Life and Hearth Sciences and Burkinabé Institute of Arts and Crafts. It combines the advantages of faculty (fundamental teaching) and those of an institute (professionalization). The system used is the modular education system based on academic credits, which combines fundamental and
professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skil ...
training.


UFR Languages, Arts and Communications

For the UFR Languages, Arts and Communications (UFR/LAC) there are two courses: Arts and Communications and in letters, languages and linguistics. The unit was created in 2000 and trains students in languages, letters, arts, culture, communication and journalism. The UFR has 2,440 students. For admission, students should have the level of secondary education. For those without that level, an exam is taken. Students of the faculty take the DEUG (university diploma) after the first cycle, the bachelor's degree and master in communication and journalism and in interpreting after the second cycle. The last one is the postgraduate diploma and the PhD in linguistics and modern letters taken after the third cycle.


UFR Human Sciences

The UFR Human Sciences (UFR/SH) is made up of two branches: History-Geography and Archaeology. It includes four departments and two projects. It has 82 teachers for 4,004 students and five student laboratories. The degrees that students take during their studies or at the end are the DEUG, the bachelor's degree, the master and the PhD according to their major.


UFR Legal and Politic Sciences

The UFR Legal and Politic Sciences (UFR/SJP) was created in 1975 with two sections: one in Law and Political Science, and the other in Criminology. The UFR trains jurists for the private and public sectors, to promote research in the legal domain, to publish work and researchers publication. For the 2004-2005 academic year there were 25 teachers for 3,189 students. The UFR/SJP awards the following degrees: DEUG I, DEUG II (university diploma)
Bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
,
Master Master or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles * Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans *Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...
, DESS (postgraduate diploma) and soon DEA and PhD.


UFR Applied Sciences

The UFR Applied Sciences (UFR/SEA) was created in 2000. It has three departments — Mathematics and Computer, Physics, and Chemistry — and 12 laboratories available for students. Like the other UFR, the UFR/SEA awards the same degrees according to the student's major.Université de Ouagadougou
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UFR Health Sciences

The UFR Health Sciences (UFR/SDS) was created in 1980 and the UFR Life and Heart Sciences (UFR/SVT). The first one has three branches: courses in medicine with five departments; courses in pharmacy with three departments and health of superior technicians. The faculty prepares doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons and qualified technicians for hospitals and clinics. The UFR Life and Hearth Sciences (UFR/SVT) is composed of two sections: the life sciences and earth sciences. The same degrees are delivered as the other faculties. The UFR/SDS has 11 laboratories. Diplomas delivered are the degree of Doctor State in Medicine, the degree of Doctor State in Pharmacy, the professionalized licence in biomedical analyses, the certificate of special studies in general surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, paediatrics and psychiatry. The UFR Health Sciences has 21 laboratories.


UFR Life and Earth Sciences

The UFR Life and Earth Sciences (UFR/SVT) has four departments: Biology and Animal Physiology, Biology and Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Geology. It houses the largest plant collection in Burkina Faso: the Herbarium of the University of Ouagadougou.


The Burkinabé Institute of Arts and Crafts

The institute has the following branches: Secretariat of direction, bilingual secretariat of direction, finance-accounting/commercial management, bank-insurance, control sciences and data-processing technology methods applied to management. Telecommunication, architecture and town planning and civil engineering are segments that will open soon. The institute gives students two years of theoretical and practical teaching. At the end students get the DUT degree.


Notable people


Faculty

* Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly, Chemistry Professor, Director General of Burkina Faso's Institute of Sciences


Alumni

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Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (born 8 February 1967) is an Ivoirian-born Canadian poet and journalist. She has won the Trillium Book Award and been nominated for the Ottawa Book Award. Biography She was born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and rais ...
, poet and journalist * Monique Ilboudo, author and human rights activist * Chantal Kaboré-Zoungrana, animal nutritionist and biosecurity expert * Stanislas Ouaro, politician and mathematician * Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, mathematician * Siméon Sawadogo, politician * Antoine Somdah, statesman * Paul Kaba Thieba, 8th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso *
Paramanga Ernest Yonli Paramanga Ernest Yonli (born 31 December 1956 in Tansarga, Tapoa Province) also known as Ernest Paramanga Yonli, is a Burkinabé politician. He was Prime Minister from 6 November 2000 to 3 June 2007 and then President of the Economic and Social ...
, 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso * Ousmane Karama, Process Control Specialist


See also

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Education in Burkina Faso Education in Burkina Faso is structured in much the same way as in the rest of the world: primary, secondary, and higher education. As of 2008, despite efforts to improve education, the country had the lowest adult literacy rate in the world (25.3% ...


References


External links


L'Université de Ouagadougou
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University of Ouagadougou Founded in 1974, the University of Ouagadougou (UO; french: Université de Ouagadougou) is in the area of Dagnöen Nord (pronounced dag-no-en noor) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was officially renamed in 2015 as l’Université Ouaga 1 Profes ...
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