The thrust of this study is to examine managing tertiary education for national transformation in Cameroon with reference to the University of Maroua. Managing connotes guiding, leading and controlling of the efforts of people toward some common objectives acceptable for national transformation. Thus, managing is a social or interactional and economic process involving a sequence of coordinated events such as planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling or leading which are its pre-requisites needed to use available scarce human and material resources to achieve a desired outcome in the fasted and most efficient way in our tertiary institutions in Cameroon. Having the University of Maroua in particular as reference, the study recommends that managing education should be a priority in terms of providing enough funds in budgetary allocation to tertiary education, providing infrastructures, equipping libraries and laboratories, and also promoting and paying academic staff when due