With over 50,000 students, the UFHB has 13 faculties and several research centers providing diplomas from two-year undergraduate to professional academic, medical, legal, and specialist degrees.It is state owned and operated by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.On 9 January 1964 the government of Côte d'Ivoire fused the institutions and promoted them to the rank of university.In the reorganization of August 1996, each of the three main campuses became independent universities, accountable directly to the Ivorian Ministry of Education.In 2008 there were two Autonomous Research Centers in Social Sciences and Mathematics, as well as ten institutes of advanced study.