Overview
Founded on 18th February 1827, the college holds the historic record of being the oldest constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone.
It also holds the record for being the first Western-Style University built in Sub-Saharan Africa, from which the first sets of university graduates in Sub-Saharan Africa emerged.
The college sits on the beautiful Mount Aureol, a landscape etched in serene greenery affording it a panoramic and picturesque view of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone.
Mount Aureol is 300 meters above sea level with low carbon foot-print making the college ideal for learning and ecotourism.
FBC has since tremendously evolved in terms of curricula and also curricular and structural reforms. In the year 2000, Fourah Bay College in an effort to modernise and standardise its previous system of assessment, the trimester system, introduced the Semester System which gave birth to the modular system within the university structure.
FBC comprises seven faculties: the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics & Development Studies, and the Faculty of Communication, Media & Information Studies.
Mission
To provide the highest quality instruction in a variety of academic disciplines, through the curricular offerings of the three constituent campuses, which reflects the national development agenda of Sierra Leone. It is predicated on the realization that the University of Sierra Leone will continue to maintain and enhance excellence in all its endeavours so that the graduates it produces can be globally competitive in the job market.
Vision
The USL is committed to providing the best higher education possible which emphasizes quality programmes that are responsive to the critical emerging needs of Sierra Leone, paying particular attention to the tripartite mandate of instruction, research and public service.
Core Values