Université de Toliara
The University of Toliara is the oldest of the decentralised higher education centres created in 1971. It became a Regional University Centre (CUR) in 1977, and was granted University status in 1988. Since then, it has become a fully-fledged University. It comprises four faculties, an institute and a Grande Ecole: the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, Economics, Management and Sociology, the Faculty of Medicine, the Institute of Fisheries and Marine Sciences and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. While the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Letters and Humanities and the Ecole Normale Supérieure are located on the Maninday University Campus, 5 km east of the town of Toliara, the Faculty of Law, Management, Economics and Sociology, the Faculty of Medicine and the Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines have their respective headquarters in the centre of Toliara.
The Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM) is a research and higher education institute in the field of marine sciences, fisheries and aquaculture, and the marine and coastal environment.
It was set up in 1992 at the University of Toliara in Madagascar following the merger of three entities: the marine station, the "Applied Oceanology" course and the halieutic higher education unit.
The Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM) is a research and higher education institute in the field of marine sciences, fisheries and aquaculture, and the marine and coastal environment.
It was set up in 1992 at the University of Toliara in Madagascar following the merger of three entities: the marine station, the "Applied Oceanology" course and the halieutic higher education unit.
