Study in Africa: 33 countries compared

What isn't here, and why

Only Morocco, South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia and Botswana publish per-institution figures under terms that allow reuse — Morocco's are per faculty and school and cover only its public universities, Nigeria's are from 2019, Namibia's give students, staff and examination results but no fees or entry requirements, and Botswana's Human Resource Development Council lets extracts of its tertiary education report be published, so each institution's students and graduates are shown, again with no fees or entry requirements. Niger's and Burundi's ministry yearbooks state no licence; their figures are facts, which each country's copyright law leaves unprotected, and are restated here — Niger's cover each public university and public grande école but name the private institutions without figures, and Burundi's give students per institution and programme. Benin's and Cameroon's higher-education ministries publish, again with no reuse licence, a guide to every public-university programme with its funded places, entry mode and subjects (Benin) and a 2022 directory of the authorised private institutions and their programmes (Cameroon); both countries' copyright laws and the Bangui Agreement leave official texts and simple facts unprotected, so those facts are restated here — with no student numbers, fees or cut-offs. Guinea's ministry yearbook states no licence; its figures are facts, which the Bangui Agreement leaves unprotected in Guinea, and are restated here — the latest edition is for 2022-23. Algeria is covered from its higher-education ministry's orientation circular for new baccalaureate holders: which bac streams each programme accepts and the minimum bac average it states, eligibility floors rather than the scores of those admitted, with no enrolment or fees per institution; students from abroad apply through the ministry's Study in Algeria platform. Madagascar's higher-education ministry publishes a list of the establishments whose programmes it had habilitated by August 2022, its latest edition, and those facts are restated here with no student numbers or fees. Angola is covered from the presidential decree that defines its public higher-education network — names and seats only, since the ministry's statistics may be reproduced only for non-profit purposes and private institutions are authorised separately. Tanzania's and Zimbabwe's regulators reserve their rights but publish lists whose facts we restate: Tanzania's approved institutions and every bachelor's programme's minimum entry points and places — published minimums, not the scores of those admitted — and Zimbabwe's registered universities and their accredited programmes, with no figures. Mozambique's and Senegal's quality agencies publish their evaluation and accreditation decisions — Mozambique's reserving its rights, Senegal's with no licence — and both countries' copyright laws leave official decisions and simple facts unprotected, so the decisions are restated here, with no student numbers or fees; Mozambique's cover only the institutions its agency has evaluated. Sudan's higher-education ministry publishes the 2026 admission percentage of every programme at its government universities in an official document, whose facts Sudan's copyright law leaves unprotected — the only entry scores on this continent, and so its one matcher; they cover one year and no private institutions. Ghana's, Kenya's and Rwanda's regulators reserve their registers and statistics, and Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Liberia and Sierra Leone publish no list we could republish, so those seven are community-maintained lists from Wikidata — the last four marked prominently as not official, with the regulator to check with. Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, DR Congo and Ethiopia are community-maintained lists from Wikidata, not official registers; each page names the regulator to check with and, where the UN records it, the conflict that affects studying there. No African country here publishes entry scores under an open licence. Smaller countries share one page, More African countries, which lists what the regulators of Mauritania, The Gambia, Cabo Verde, Lesotho, Eswatini and Mauritius register, with no figures; Gabon's and the Central African Republic's ministries publish no list we could read, and for several more countries — named on that page — no official higher-education list could be read at all, so their institutions are listed there from Wikidata, in a separate block marked as not an official list.

Figures are never converted into one currency or ranked across countries: each government measures cost and graduate earnings differently, and every figure above keeps its own definition.