BUST is one of the two pioneer private Universities to be authorized in Cameroon. Bamenda University of Science and Technology was fashioned on the Anglo-Saxon University system. It was founded in 1995 and went operational in 1998. This lay private institution of higher learning is the brainchild of the Industrial and Educational Development Company (INDECO Ltd.), incorporated on the 12th of October 1995, with Headquarters in Bamenda, Northwest Region of Cameroon.