Ivory Coast

Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

University of Ivory Coast

Innovative Educational Proposal

The Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny is the leading public institution in Ivory Coast, with a long academic tradition that has established it as a hub of pluralism, intellectual openness and respect for diversity of ideas. It offers rigorous, ethical and interdisciplinary education through its 13 Unités de Formation et de Recherche (UFR), in which students are the protagonists of their educational process. Its faculty carries out outstanding academic and research work that contributes to the development of Ivory Coast.


Comprehensive education for a professional future

Today, it offers education delivered both on campus and remotely, in which students hold a central place in their academic journey. Its faculty ensures the initial and continuing training of professionals in scientific, cultural and professional fields, while also carrying out scientific and technological research work.

The Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny aims to be an efficient, innovative, civic-minded university open to the world, committed to supporting its students throughout their entire journey, fostering their professional integration and contributing to a more equitable society.


Areas
of Knowledge

It offers a broad and diverse educational range in fields such as economics and management, law and political science, medicine, pharmacy and odonto-stomatology, science and technology, biosciences, mathematics and computer science, arts, languages and humanities, information, communication and the arts, and criminology.


GPE-Abidjan

The GPE-Abidjan (Institute de Gestion de la Politique Économique) is a regional center of excellence of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, established in 1998 on the initiative of the World Bank Institute and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). It holds unique professional recognition that has made it the subregional benchmark in economic policy management, public governance and reform implementation.

Its educational offering includes accredited programs, targeted modular continuing training and a fully online program (FOAD), ensuring flexible access adapted to different professional ambitions and schedules. Its pedagogy places each participant in front of real country and regional data during practical work, with the support of national and international experts.

1964

Founding year
as an autonomous university institution in Ivory Coast

No. 1

In Ivory Coast
The country’s largest and oldest public university

13 UFR

Teaching and Research Units, covering 6 major fields of knowledge

+80,000

Students
Enrolled

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