The Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC), or in Latin ''(Universitas Catholica Cameruniae)'' is a

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located in

Bamenda Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region. The city has a population of about 2 million people and is located north-west of the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé. Bamenda is ...

in the North West region of the

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. It is the Provincial University of the

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in the Anglophone part of Cameroon and the only Catholic Institution of

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founded by the Anglophone Catholic Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda. It provides

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, graduate and

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in both the arts and the sciences. The faculties and schools are spread across the dioceses of Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, with the main campus located in Bamenda. While the main campus is being developed, the university is operating at the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral Primary School. Professors and Lecturers at the University are recruited from sacred (i.e., theology, canon law, etc.) and secular disciplines (e.g., letters, philosophy, education, social sciences, economics). The majority of degrees and diplomas awarded by the Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda are state-authorized

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, as the university is certified to issue them by the Ministry of Higher Education. Theological degrees are awarded in the name of the

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and are the result of a prescribed course of study in the ecclesiastical faculty of theology.

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External links

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Cameroon's Ministry of Higher Education
*The School of Law of the Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC), Bamenda has its Main Campus at th
Roman Catholic Diocese of Buea

The Catholic School of Health Sciences
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