Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) of Sierra Leone — established under the Tertiary Education Commission Act 2001; operates under the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE). Current legal framework: Universities Act 2021 (replaced Universities Act 2005). TEC maintains Category A (Universities) and other categories of accredited tertiary education institutions. Address: No. 8 Jones Street, PO Box 67, Freetown.. Verify on the public registry · last verified 2026-05-13.
Founded 2017 (chartered under Sierra Leone Act 2017); named after former president Ernest Bai Koroma. Public science-and-technology university located in Makeni (Bombali District, Northern Province). Established 2017 by Act of Parliament; named after Ernest Bai Koroma, the former President of Sierra Leone (2007–2018). Continued under the Universities Act 2021. Schools focus on science, engineering, technology, and applied sciences relevant to Sierra Leone's development needs. Part of the broader national strategy to expand STEM higher education beyond Freetown. Provincial university serving Northern Sierra Leone.
SubjectsCommunication & Media Studies · Computer Science & IT · Architecture & Design · Business & Management · Arts & Humanities
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Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) of Sierra Leone — established under the Tertiary Education Commission Act 2001; operates under the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE). Current legal framework: Universities Act 2021 (replaced Universities Act 2005). TEC maintains Category A (Universities) and other categories of accredited tertiary education institutions. Address: No. 8 Jones Street, PO Box 67, Freetown.. Verify on the public registry · last verified 2026-05-13.
Founded 2009 (Sierra Leone campus opened); Limkokwing network founded 1991 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Private creative-technology university in Freetown — Sierra Leone branch of the Limkokwing University network founded 1991 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing. The Sierra Leone campus opened 2009. Focus on creative industries, communication design, fashion design, digital media, and information technology. Part of the broader Limkokwing global network with campuses in multiple countries. Branch-campus structure: degrees affiliated with the main Malaysian institution. Website is the network-wide limkokwing.net.
SubjectsAgriculture & Environmental Studies · Education · Natural Sciences · Engineering & Technology · Medicine & Health Sciences · Business & Management · Social Sciences
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Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) of Sierra Leone — established under the Tertiary Education Commission Act 2001; operates under the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE). Current legal framework: Universities Act 2021 (replaced Universities Act 2005). TEC maintains Category A (Universities) and other categories of accredited tertiary education institutions. Address: No. 8 Jones Street, PO Box 67, Freetown.. Verify on the public registry · last verified 2026-05-13.
Founded 1964 (as Njala University College, in affiliation with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Sierra Leone); became autonomous Njala University 2005 (Universities Act 2005). Major public university located in Njala (Moyamba District, Southern Province). Founded 1964 as Njala University College with technical assistance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under USAID — focused on agriculture and education. Originally constituent of the University of Sierra Leone; became an autonomous full university under the Universities Act 2005. Strong agricultural, rural-development, environmental, and teacher-training programmes. Current enrolment ~18,000 students across 16 schools. Bo campus is the secondary site. Reopened November 2025 after extended closure period.
SubjectsTheology & Religious Studies · Business & Management · Education · Computer Science & IT · Social Sciences · Arts & Humanities
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Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) of Sierra Leone — established under the Tertiary Education Commission Act 2001; operates under the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE). Current legal framework: Universities Act 2021 (replaced Universities Act 2005). TEC maintains Category A (Universities) and other categories of accredited tertiary education institutions. Address: No. 8 Jones Street, PO Box 67, Freetown.. Verify on the public registry · last verified 2026-05-13.
Founded 2005 (founded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Makeni; chartered 2009; received full university status 2014). Private Catholic-affiliated university located in Makeni (Northern Province), founded 2005 by the Catholic Archdiocese of Makeni. Chartered 2009; gained full university status 2014. Sierra Leone's first private university with a strong Catholic social-teaching orientation. Faculties span theology, business, education, computer science, and research and public policy. Distinct from EBKUST (also in Makeni) — UNIMAK is Catholic-private, EBKUST is public STEM-specialised.
SubjectsMedicine & Health Sciences · Arts & Humanities · Natural Sciences · Engineering & Technology · Law · Business & Management · Social Sciences · Theology & Religious Studies · Education
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Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) of Sierra Leone — established under the Tertiary Education Commission Act 2001; operates under the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE). Current legal framework: Universities Act 2021 (replaced Universities Act 2005). TEC maintains Category A (Universities) and other categories of accredited tertiary education institutions. Address: No. 8 Jones Street, PO Box 67, Freetown.. Verify on the public registry · last verified 2026-05-13.
Founded 1827 (as Fourah Bay College, founded by the Church Missionary Society — the oldest Western-style university institution in Sub-Saharan Africa); constituted as the federal University of Sierra Leone in 1966; continued under Universities Acts 2005 and 2021. Sierra Leone flagship federal university, located in the capital Freetown. Roots go back to 1827 with the founding of Fourah Bay College (FBC) by the Church Missionary Society — making it the oldest Western-style university institution in Sub-Saharan Africa, pre-dating any other African university by decades. Established as the federal University of Sierra Leone in 1966, today USL is a federation of three constituent colleges: Fourah Bay College (FBC, 1827), College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS, 1988), and Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM, 1980). FBC sits at Mount Aureol overlooking Freetown — the historic 'Athens of West Africa' that trained early generations of West African civil servants, clergy, and intellectuals across the British colonial empire. Languages of instruction: English.
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