Cameroon has achieved one of the highest rates of school attendance in Africa, although the literacy rate is still just 93 %. Mission schools play an valuable role in education and are partly subsidized by the government. In 1996, 86 % of primary school-aged children were listed in school, while only 24 % of appropriately aged children attended secondary school. The University of Yaoundé, which was accomplished in 1962, has faculties of law, arts, and science. In the early 1990s a total of 33,850 students were listed in institutions of higher education.