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Ivorian universities, like other universities in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, have had the mission of supporting students’ professional integration since 2009. This article analyzes the transformations brought about by this shift toward professionalization, marked by the adoption of the LMD system (licence-master-doctorat, or bachelor’s-master’s-doctorate). We observe how university institutions implement mechanisms aimed at integrating their graduates into the workforce. Qualitative interviews conducted with institutional actors from two Ivorian universities reveal: a slow implementation of these aspects of university professionalization; the actions and mechanisms in place are insufficient and/or unsuited to the Ivorian socioeconomic environment; the need to develop more endogenous mechanisms that bring together the expertise of institutional actors from universities and those from the socioeconomic world.