Earn a quality university degree from a university with a difference. SMUHI offers the following advantages:
Superior Quality: SMUHI offers professional or career-focused degrees that are taught by qualified staff & mentored by the University of Douala.
Affordable: SMUHI is the least expensive university in the country. Scholarships are available for students with exceptional academic performance and the underprivileged. Students can pay fees in multiple instalments.
Convenient: SMUHI has face-to-face and distance learning courses with an option to study full or part-time and also with comfortable bus services etc.
Flexible: SMUHI accepts transfer students from other institutions as well as credits already earned from any accredited institution. Students can also change career fields.
Market-Oriented: SMUHI offers professional or career-focused programs to enable students to create jobs, enter the workforce or advance in their current careers.
SMUHI promotes the goal of community within a context of diversity. Therefore, it encourages students to understand and appreciate the diversity of cultures that exists locally, nationally, and internationally. It also seeks to promote appreciation and preservation of biodiversity by helping students understand the impact/dependence of human beings on their environment.
SMUHI believes that personal service is a primary goal of the educated person. Therefore, it encourages students to experience the responsibilities and rewards of serving the human and ecological community.
SMUHI commits itself to promoting education that facilitates lifelong learning. Therefore, it teaches students how to learn, to think critically, to do constructive research, and to access and integrate information in order to prepare them for continued personal and career growth.
We foster a caring culture that supports the well-being of each member, and we celebrate the achievements of all members of our community in goals attained and obstacles overcome, and in all things give praise to God.
Not only does SMUHI provide you with the practical skills that are necessary to transition seamlessly into the workforce upon your graduation, but we also make sure that you will have a good sense of social justice so that you make the transition responsibly.
The academic mentorship of SMU Higher Institute, Buea by the University of Douala, has planted a solid foundation for the growth of the former with proper implementation moving forward.