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Université Alassane Ouattara

university in côte d'ivoire

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ3551369 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Université Alassane Ouattara is a public university in Côte d'Ivoire. It was known as Université de Bouaké prior to a name change in August 2012. It was founded in 1992. It was temporarily relocated to Abidjan in 2002, but reopened in Bouaké in 2011.

Faculties

Its faculties include:

Communication, Environment and Society

Administrative, Managerial and Legal Sciences

Economic and Developmental Sciences

Medical Sciences

Medical and Veterinary Centre

Research and Development Centre

Multipolar Institute

Regional Higher Education of Korhogo

The university is one of twelve worldwide to host a UNESCO chair in bioethics.

Editorial summary

“Université Alassane Ouattara” enters the record as university in côte d'ivoire. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Université, Alassane and Ouattara can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1992, 2002, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Université, Alassane and Ouattara.
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Why this record matters

“Université Alassane Ouattara” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Université, Alassane and Ouattara provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3551369. VIAF identifies the subject as 315250514. The Library of Congress control number is no2015106713. Authority coordinates are 7.686, -5.067. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012, 1992, 2002 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Université Alassane Ouattara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.