15,623 candidates, 2,216 admitted. The national success rate for the BTS 2026 collapses to 14.19%. In Littoral, the most represented region with 3,624 candidates, only 517 obtained their diploma.
In Adamaoua, it is the worst score: 10.00% success rate. How can it be explained that after 2 years of training, 85.81% of students fail an exam meant to professionalize them?
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The verdict is in. The BTS 2026 results published by MINESUP are a shock: out of
15,623 young people who took the exam, only 2,216 were declared admitted.
A national success rate of 14.19%. In other words, 8 out of 10 candidates leave with a failure. At this rate, the BTS is no longer a qualification diploma, it is a guillotine.
The regional breakdown drives the point home. The three major regions concentrate more than half of the candidates: Littoral 3,624, Centre 3,218, West 2,190. But success is hardly better there: 14.27% in Littoral, 14.20% in Centre, 13.70% in West.
And what about the so-called “enclaved” regions? Far North: 10.87%, East: 10.31%, Adamaoua: 10.00%. 1 admitted out of 10. Entire generations of failures are thus being produced.
Who are we kidding? For two years, these students pay fees, attend classes, do internships. And in the end, the system massively fails them. Whose fault is it?
To institutions that open programs without technical platforms. To underpaid and demotivated teachers. To programs disconnected from the labor market. And especially to a MINESUP that allows private schools “diploma factories” to thrive without real control.
The most serious: this 14.19% rate jeopardizes the country’s future. Cameroon needs higher technicians to industrialize, to digitize, to produce. Yet the path is blocked for them right after school.
What is the use then of the billions invested in professional higher education if it produces 85.81% failures?
The BTS 2026 is not just a bad result. It is proof of a failure. Failure of governance, failure of quality, failure of ambition.
As long as quantity of schools is prioritized over quality of training, Cameroon will continue to produce unemployed graduates. And the whole nation will pay the price.
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