About University Gaston Berger
The UGB is located 13 kilometers from the city of St. Louis, on National Road No. 2 to Mauritania. It extended over an area of 240ha. The premises housing the UGB were originally designed in 1975 to transfer to St. Louis the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the UCAD, a project that was abandoned in 1998.
Thanks to the political will of the government and the aspirations of the people Senegal, the National Assembly voted unanimously, the legislation which the BMU the second university of Senegal.
The start of this University is an implementation of the measures adopted by the National Commission for Reform of Education and Training (CNREF) that, in order to establish a balance between academic training and the needs of socio circles economic Senegal, hoped that university courses are now focused on vocational streams.
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