Since 2011, one in five students in Burkina Faso is enrolled in a private higher education institution. (EPES In 2012, 1,3,394 students were enrolled in private higher education institutions in Burkina Faso, a rate of 21.95% of the total of all students in the country, which at that time was 60. 998 students. These figures show a real frenzy of private investors for the creation of private higher education institutions. This boom could have been salutary, if only in view of the recent results of the control carried out by the services of the Ministry in charge of higher education in 2017, we had not been surprised that these establishments harbor inadequacies. that it would be interesting to identify to highlight them. These shortcomings raise the following questions: What is the origin of these deficiencies? Can these shortcomings call into question the raison d'être of these private establishments?