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About Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology

The Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, better known as "EBKUST" is one of the six public universities in Sierra Leone. Our strategic mission focuses on the generation and acquisition of needs-specific knowledge determined by a global economy. The EBKUST in Perspective Upon cabinet approval, a bill was sent to parliament in June 2014, amending the Universities Act 2005 to establish the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology; and another (The Polytechnics (Amendment) Act, 2014) to “delete the Makeni Polytechnic and Portloko polytechnic from the Schedule of the Polytechnic Act 2001 because these institutions have been upgraded to university status under the (Amendment) Act 2014” On the 17th day of September 2014, this was signed into law; the Universities (Amendment) Act 2014 establishing the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, comprising; 1. “The Magburaka University College” incorporating the Islamic College, Magburaka and the Government Technical Institute, Magburaka; 2. “The Makeni University College” incorporating the Makeni Polytechnic and Teko Veterinary Institute; and 3. “The Portloko University College” 4. Any other institution that may, on the advice on the Tertiary Education Commission, be constituted as Campus by Statutory Instrument made by the Minister. The Secretariat of the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, in the heart of the Tonkolili District, with campuses in the three northern-district-headquarter towns of Makeni (in Bombali), Portloko (in Portloko) and Magburaka (in Tonkolili).