Study in Asia: 36 countries compared
East Asia, South-East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Levant and the Gulf โ what each country's government publishes about its universities, and what you can do with it here.
36
countries in Asia with a section on this site
9
have a matcher: enter your own grades or scores and see where you stand
27
are directories or finders, where no entry data can be reused
Side by side
In alphabetical order, not ranked. Each country counts its institutions in its own way โ one lists universities, another every campus or college โ so the numbers describe each section, not the size of the country's system.
| Country | What you can do here | Listed | Usual first degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 51universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Armenia | Directory โ deliberately incomplete | 33institutions listed | 4 years (bachelor) |
| Azerbaijan | Matcher on average entrant score | 55civil universities and academies in DฤฐM's tables, and others in the Ministry's register | 4 years (bachelor's); longer for medicine |
| Bangladesh | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 178public & private universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| China | Directory | 2,952universities & vocational colleges | 4 years (ๆฌ็ง) |
| Georgia | Directory + authorisation periods | 66authorised higher-education institutions | 4 years (bachelor's, 240 ECTS); one-cycle programmes such as medicine are longer |
| Hong Kong | Directory + non-local intake | 8UGC-funded universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| India | Matcher on JoSAA closing ranks | 138institutes in the JEE seat allocation (JoSAA), plus a Wikidata directory of universities | 4 years (BTech), 5 years (BArch, dual degrees), 3 years (BA/BSc) |
| Indonesia | Directory โ community-maintained | 5,055universities, institutes, polytechnics & colleges | 4 years (sarjana) |
| Iran | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 183universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Iraq | Matcher on central-admission minimum averages | 36federal public universities in the ministry's central-admission minimums for 2026/27 | Bachelor's mostly 4 years; dentistry and pharmacy 5, medicine 6; technical programmes 2 years |
| Japan | Directory by prefecture | 1,175universities, junior colleges & colleges of technology | 4 years (6 for medicine) |
| Kazakhstan | Directory | 123universities, academies & institutes | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Kyrgyzstan | Matcher on mean admitted ORT score | 54universities in the testing centre's 2025 admission report | 4 years (bachelor's); 5โ6 for medicine |
| Malaysia | Directory | 212public institutions & private universities | 3โ4 years |
| Mongolia | Directory + accreditation | 64licensed universities, institutes and colleges | 4 years (bachelor's); 5โ6 for medicine |
| Myanmar | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 77universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Nepal | Directory + every campus's students | 1,513campuses under 25 universities and medical academies, including 58 colleges affiliated with foreign universities | Bachelor's mostly 4 years (some 3), master's 2 years; medical degrees run longer |
| North Korea | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 24universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Oman | Directory + accreditation | 31universities & colleges | 4 years (bachelor's), usually after a foundation year |
| Pakistan | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 165public & private universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Palestine | Directory + students per programme | 35universities and colleges (West Bank) | Bachelor's is the main degree; intermediate diplomas at community and university colleges |
| Qatar | Directory | 18public institutions, branch campuses & private colleges | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Singapore | Degree salary comparison | 6autonomous universities | 3โ4 years |
| South Korea | Full matcher | 413universities & junior colleges | 4 years (2โ3 at a junior college) |
| Sri Lanka | Matcher on Z-score cut-offs | 42state universities & institutes, and non-state degree-awarding institutes | 3โ4 years (bachelor's) |
| Syria | Matcher on the minimum to apply | 50public & private universities on the ministry's register | 4 years (bachelor's); 5 for engineering, 6 for medicine |
| Taiwan | Matcher on distribution-admission cut-offs | 60universities in distribution admission | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Tajikistan | Directory with places and fees | 42universities, institutes, academies and branches in the national admission plan | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Thailand | Directory | 160universities & colleges | 4 years (6 for medicine) |
| Turkey | Directory โ community-maintained | 203state & foundation universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Turkmenistan | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 6universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| United Arab Emirates | Directory | 93universities, colleges & branch campuses | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Uzbekistan | Matcher on test score (paid places) | 105state higher-education institutions, branches and outlying faculties | 4 years (bachelor's) |
| Vietnam | Directory + accreditation decisions | 250universities, academies and colleges in the education ministry's list of accredited institutions and programmes (230 with an institutional decision) | Bachelor's mostly 4 years (engineering and medicine longer), master's 1.5โ2 years |
| Yemen | Directory โ community-maintained, not official | 38universities | 4 years (bachelor's) |
Where you can match yourself
In these countries the published data includes something to compare your own number with โ a cut-off, an average entry grade or how contested a place is. Each quiz says exactly which, and for which year.
- Azerbaijan ยท Matcher on average entrant score
- India ยท Matcher on JoSAA closing ranks
- Iraq ยท Matcher on central-admission minimum averages
- Kyrgyzstan ยท Matcher on mean admitted ORT score
- South Korea ยท Full matcher
- Sri Lanka ยท Matcher on Z-score cut-offs
- Syria ยท Matcher on the minimum to apply
- Taiwan ยท Matcher on distribution-admission cut-offs
- Uzbekistan ยท Matcher on test score (paid places)
Every country, A to Z
Afghanistan
51 universities
- How you get in
- The national Kankor examination for public universities; women have been banned from universities since December 2022 (UNESCO)
- Taught in
- Dari and Pashto
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Higher Education could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by province with no figures, fees or programmes.
Armenia
33 institutions listed
- How you get in
- unified national examinations, administered by the Assessment and Testing Centre
- Taught in
- Armenian, with Russian and English-taught programmes
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 10 of 33listed institutions carry an enrolment figure. Armenia is small enough that the well-known universities are covered, but this is a Wikidata extract rather than a national register and the long tail is missing
- What we can't tell you
- Armenia's higher education statistics are published by the Statistical Committee in aggregate, not per institution, and the accreditation body ANQA's register carries no reuse licence. There is no open source for tuition, entry scores or graduate outcomes at institution level.
Azerbaijan
55 civil universities and academies in DฤฐM's tables, and others in the Ministry's register
- How you get in
- Centralised two-stage exam run by the State Examination Center: out of 700 for specialty groups IโIV (300 + 400); group V adds a special-ability exam
- Taught in
- Azerbaijani and Russian sections; some specialties taught in English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 218 specialtiesin DฤฐM's 2024 specialty list whose name says they are taught in English
- What we can't tell you
- DฤฐM publishes each institution's average entrant score by specialty group but no cut-off per specialty, and no fees, enrolment or graduate outcomes per institution are open data; foreign applicants apply outside DฤฐM's competition.
Bangladesh
178 public & private universities
- How you get in
- Public universities admit on their own (or clustered) admission tests after HSC results; foreign students apply through the Ministry of Education via a Bangladesh mission
- Taught in
- Bengali; many private universities teach in English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. The University Grants Commission's lists of public and private universities carry a copyright notice and no reuse terms, so this is a community-maintained list by division with no figures, fees or programmes.
China
2,952 universities & vocational colleges
- How you get in
- ้ซ่ (gaokao), with provincial cut-off scores
- Taught in
- Mandarin, with English-taught degrees at the larger universities
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 16 joint-venture & foreign campuseson the Ministry of Education's 2,952-institution list โ Sino-foreign universities, mainlandโHong Kong/Macau ventures and foreign campuses in Hainan
- What we can't tell you
- Only the Ministry's list of institutions is used. Gaokao cut-offs (set per province) and tuition schedules carry no licence permitting republication, and nothing is published on graduate earnings.
Georgia
66 authorised higher-education institutions
- How you get in
- Georgian school-leavers enter through the Unified National Examinations; foreign applicants apply to each university directly, outside the national exams
- Taught in
- Georgian; many universities also teach programmes in English (medicine above all) and some in Russian, but the register doesn't record the language of a programme
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The register gives no enrolment, fees, entry scores, programme list or graduate outcomes per institution โ only each one's type, legal form, levels, website and authorisation periods.
Hong Kong
8 UGC-funded universities
- How you get in
- Local school-leavers apply through JUPAS on their HKDSE results; non-local and other applicants apply to each university directly
- Taught in
- English at most UGC-funded universities; some programmes teach in Chinese (Cantonese or Putonghua)
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 28.7% non-local first-year intake6,406 of 22,310 first-year-first-degree admissions (full-time equivalents) on UGC-funded places in 2025/26 came from the Chinese Mainland, elsewhere in Asia or the rest of the world โ admissions, not enrolment (our sum of the University Grants Committee's figures per university)
- What we can't tell you
- The open data covers admissions to UGC-funded places only: no entry scores, fees or graduate outcomes, and nothing on self-financed programmes or self-financing institutions.
India
138 institutes in the JEE seat allocation (JoSAA), plus a Wikidata directory of universities
- How you get in
- JEE (Advanced) for the IITs and IISc, JEE (Main) for the NITs, IIEST, IIITs and other government-funded institutes, allocated through JoSAA; NEET, CUET and state exams for everything else
- Taught in
- English is widely the medium of instruction
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- JoSAA's opening and closing ranks cover only the 138 institutes in the JEE seat allocation and are reused without JoSAA's permission (requested in draft, not sent); India publishes no per-institution fees, graduate earnings, or cut-offs for NEET, CUET or state exams, and the Ministry's AISHE directory may not be republished โ the wider list still comes from Wikidata.
Indonesia
5,055 universities, institutes, polytechnics & colleges
- How you get in
- National selection for public universities (SNBP on school record, SNBT by test) plus each university's own admission
- Taught in
- Indonesian; international classes in English at some universities
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The ministry's national database holds enrolment, graduates and accreditation per institution and programme, but its data portal reserves all rights โ so this is a Wikidata list by province, which may include institutions that have since closed or merged.
Iran
183 universities
- How you get in
- Public universities admit through the national entrance examination (konkur); foreign students apply to each university or through the ministry's channels
- Taught in
- Persian
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, or the Ministry of Health and Medical Education for medical universities could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by province with no figures, fees or programmes.
Iraq
36 federal public universities in the ministry's central-admission minimums for 2026/27
- How you get in
- Central admission by the ministry, ranked on the secondary-school (sixth preparatory) average by stream; students from abroad apply under separate rules
- Taught in
- Arabic (some programmes in English)
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The ministry publishes the minimum total and average admitted to each of 1,263 central-admission programmes; no fees, enrolment or graduate outcomes per university, and nothing for private universities or the Kurdistan Region.
Japan
1,175 universities, junior colleges & colleges of technology
- How you get in
- university-run entrance exams, plus the national Common Test for national and many public universities
- Taught in
- Japanese; English-taught degrees at a minority of universities
- What it costs
- ยฅ535,800/yrthe ministerial standard tuition at Japan's 85 national universities, which may charge up to 120% of it. Since April 2024 they may set separate, uncapped fees for international students on a student visa โ so this is a floor for a domestic student, not a quote for someone from abroad. Public and private universities set their own fees and none are published per institution
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 2,972,412 studentsat 812 universities, per the Ministry's 2025 School Basic Survey โ published only as national and prefectural totals
- What we can't tell you
- Per-university data exists in ๅคงๅญฆใใผใใฌใผใ (University Portraits) but its terms grant no reuse, so there are no per-institution fees outside the national standard, no official entry scores โ hensachi are private exam-company estimates โ and no open graduate outcomes.
Kazakhstan
123 universities, academies & institutes
- How you get in
- Unified National Testing (UNT) results decide admission and the award of state grants
- Taught in
- Kazakh and Russian; English-taught tracks at a growing number of universities
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 5.1% from abroad41,398 of 819,493 students hold no Kazakh citizenship, counted per university on the Ministry's platform
- What we can't tell you
- Tuition is set by each university and not published centrally, and there are no open entry thresholds or graduate outcomes per institution.
Kyrgyzstan
54 universities in the testing centre's 2025 admission report
- How you get in
- National test (ะะ ะข) run by the Center for Educational Assessment and Teaching Methods, with subject tests; places allocated online through ยซะะฑะธัััะธะตะฝั Onlineยป; foreign citizens may take the university's own entrance tests instead
- Taught in
- Kyrgyz and Russian
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The testing centre publishes the mean, highest and lowest ORT score of students admitted to each specialty, but no cut-off, fees, enrolment totals or graduate outcomes per university are open data.
Malaysia
212 public institutions & private universities
- How you get in
- UPU centralised admission for public universities; private universities admit directly
- Taught in
- Malay at public universities; English widely at private ones
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 8 branch campusesof foreign universities โ Monash, Nottingham, Heriot-Watt, Southampton, Xiamen and others โ among 55 private universities, which is where much of Malaysia's international study happens. The private list is from Wikidata, not an official register
- What we can't tell you
- Per-institution open data covers public institutions only and stops at 2021. The ministry's statistics, graduate tracer study and private-institution register exist but its terms forbid commercial reuse, so fees, entry requirements and outcomes aren't here.
Mongolia
64 licensed universities, institutes and colleges
- How you get in
- Mongolian school-leavers sit the General Entrance Examination (ะญะะจ) run by the Education Evaluation Center; international students apply to each university directly
- Taught in
- Mongolian
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Mongolia's open data covers which institutions are licensed and accredited, and which programmes are accredited โ it publishes no enrolment, fees, entrance-exam (ะญะะจ) cut-offs or graduate outcomes per institution.
Myanmar
77 universities
- How you get in
- Matriculation examination marks for state universities; each university sets its own procedure for foreign students
- Taught in
- Burmese; some English-medium programmes
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by region or state with no figures, fees or programmes.
Nepal
1,513 campuses under 25 universities and medical academies, including 58 colleges affiliated with foreign universities
- How you get in
- Each university admits students after Grade 12 through its own entrance examinations; for medicine and other health sciences, the Medical Education Commission runs a common entrance examination
- Taught in
- English and Nepali
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The University Grants Commission's report gives every campus's students and programmes for 2024/25 (2081/82 B.S.), and each university's students by level and faculty, graduates and teachers; no fees, entry scores or graduate outcomes.
North Korea
24 universities
- How you get in
- State admission to universities; no route for foreign applicants is published
- Taught in
- Korean
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Education could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by province with no figures, fees or programmes.
Oman
31 universities & colleges
- How you get in
- General Education Diploma results, with places allocated centrally by the Higher Education Admission Center
- Taught in
- Arabic and English; English is the main language of instruction in most degree programmes
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Oman publishes each institution's centrally placed intake and accreditation status, but not total enrolment at private institutions, programme lists, fees or entry scores.
Pakistan
165 public & private universities
- How you get in
- Each university admits on intermediate (HSSC) results, often with its own entry test; foreign students apply through the university and need a Ministry of Education no-objection certificate for a study visa
- Taught in
- Urdu and English; most university teaching is in English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. The Higher Education Commission's list of recognised universities states no reuse terms, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by province with no figures, fees or programmes.
Palestine
35 universities and colleges (West Bank)
- How you get in
- Each university admits on the general secondary (Tawjihi) average, competitively against the places in each programme, and sets its own minimum averages every year
- Taught in
- Arabic
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The ministry's yearbook gives no fees, entry requirements or graduate outcomes per institution, and has no figures for institutions in the Gaza Strip since 2023/24.
Qatar
18 public institutions, branch campuses & private colleges
- How you get in
- Set by each institution; the branch campuses apply their home university's admission standards
- Taught in
- Arabic and English; English at the Education City branch campuses
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- No fees, entry requirements or programme lists are open data, the Education City branch campuses are reported as one combined figure, and enrolment stops at 2022/23.
Singapore
6 autonomous universities
- How you get in
- Indicative Grade Profile, set per university
- Taught in
- English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- S$3,911/monthmedian gross starting salary six months after graduating โ published per DEGREE, the finest granularity of any country here
- For students from abroad
- 91%median employment rate six months after graduating, across degrees
- What we can't tell you
- No central entry requirements or fees โ each university sets and publishes its own.
South Korea
413 universities & junior colleges
- How you get in
- ์๋ฅ (CSAT) plus school record, through ์์ and ์ ์ rounds
- Taught in
- Korean; a growing number of English-taught degrees
- What it costs
- โฉ6.63m/yrmedian annual tuition at a campus institution, and the only figure here published PER FIELD OF STUDY โ Korea prices humanities below engineering below medicine, so the number you actually pay depends on your subject. National universities run around half the private rate
- What graduates earn
- 67.5%median share of graduates in work, measured from national health-insurance records rather than a survey โ a headcount, not a response rate, so it is not comparable with the earnings figures other countries publish
- For students from abroad
- 5.6:1applicants per place at the median institution, rising past 30:1 at the most contested. Korea does NOT publish ์๋ฅ scores per university, so this is how contested a place is โ never the marks you need
- What we can't tell you
- ์๋ฅ entrance scores are not disclosed per institution under any open licence, so no honest reach/target/safety on grades is possible. Graduate employment is published for the institution as a whole, not per department.
Sri Lanka
42 state universities & institutes, and non-state degree-awarding institutes
- How you get in
- A-level Z-score, with a cut-off per course for each of 25 districts set by the University Grants Commission
- Taught in
- Sinhala, Tamil and English; English in medicine, engineering and the sciences
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 260 course cut-offsthe 2025/26 minimum Z-score for every state-university course, district by district
- What we can't tell you
- State-university places are for students who sat Sri Lanka's A-levels; international students apply to the non-state institutes or through separate quotas, whose terms aren't published as data.
Syria
50 public & private universities on the ministry's register
- How you get in
- Baccalaureate percentage (scientific or literary stream); the ministry sets a minimum to list each programme in the general, parallel (fee-paying) and private-university rounds
- Taught in
- Arabic
- What it costs
- US$2,000โ5,000 a yearfees for Arab and foreign students at public universities, 2026/27, by faculty (plus US$1,000 once on registration) โ ministry Announcement No. 9
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 1,286 admission optionsthe 2026/27 minimum percentage the ministry set for each programme, public and private
- What we can't tell you
- The ministry publishes a minimum to apply for each programme, not the mark of the last student admitted, and no enrolment, graduate or private-university fee figures per university.
Taiwan
60 universities in distribution admission
- How you get in
- Three routes: individual application, the Stars programme and distribution admission (ๅ็ผๅ ฅๅญธ), which ranks candidates on national exam subject scores weighted differently by every department and publishes each department's lowest admitted total
- Taught in
- Mandarin Chinese; department names are shown in Chinese
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Only the distribution route is covered โ about a third of places. The fee standard is published per university and college type without stating its period, and no outcomes are published per university. Technological universities use a separate system and are not included.
Tajikistan
42 universities, institutes, academies and branches in the national admission plan
- How you get in
- One centralised entrance exam run by the National Testing Centre, in one of five specialty groups (four subjects each); applicants list up to 12 programmeโinstitutionโform choices
- Taught in
- Tajik; Russian for many programmes, a few in English or Uzbek
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 19% free placesthe share of places in the 2026/27 plan that are state-funded โ foreign citizens living in Tajikistan may apply only for the paid ones
- What we can't tell you
- Passing scores are shown only to each applicant in their own account, and there are no enrolment, graduate or outcome figures per institution; the plan is the first round's, and its fees are printed without saying what period they cover.
Thailand
160 universities & colleges
- How you get in
- TCAS โ the national admission system, run in rounds
- Taught in
- Thai; English in the ministry-labelled international programmes
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 933 international programmesregistered with the ministry across 71 institutions, usually taught in English โ and 42,883 international students already enrolled
- What we can't tell you
- No per-institution fees, entry scores or graduate employment in the ministry's open data; admission scores sit in the separate TCAS system. The international-programme count follows the ministry's label, so universities that teach in English without it are undercounted.
Turkey
203 state & foundation universities
- How you get in
- National exam (YKS) with central placement by score for Turkish students; universities set their own terms for international applicants
- Taught in
- Turkish; English-taught programmes at many universities
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Turkey's official student statistics and programme entry scores, quotas and fees (YรK Atlas) carry no licence to republish, so this is a Wikidata list of universities by province and nothing more.
Turkmenistan
6 universities
- How you get in
- Each institution's own entrance examinations, set annually by the state; foreign students apply through the ministry
- Taught in
- Turkmen and Russian
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Education could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by region with no figures, fees or programmes.
United Arab Emirates
93 universities, colleges & branch campuses
- How you get in
- Each institution admits on school grades and its own requirements; the ministry publishes each one's acceptance rate
- Taught in
- English at most institutions; Arabic at some federal and Islamic-studies colleges
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 42 branch campusesof foreign universities on the higher-education ministry's 2026 register of 93 institutions
- What we can't tell you
- No total enrolment or fees per institution are open data, and Dubai's free-zone campuses report to a regulator whose data isn't licensed for commercial reuse.
Uzbekistan
105 state higher-education institutions, branches and outlying faculties
- How you get in
- One national test (three compulsory and two programme-specific subjects, out of 189), or a creative exam for arts and sport; each programme, study form and language publishes the lowest score admitted
- Taught in
- Uzbek; also Russian and Karakalpak, with a few programmes in Tajik, Kazakh and Turkmen
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 4,703 paid-place scoresthe 2025 lowest score admitted to a paid (contract) place per programme, study form and language
- What we can't tell you
- The national test and its scores are for applicants from Uzbekistan โ foreign citizens apply to each university directly. Only paid-place scores are published per programme โ since 2025 state-funded places are allocated nationally and their scores are 0 in the table โ and there are no fees, enrolment or outcomes per institution; private universities and foreign branch campuses are not in the data.
Vietnam
250 universities, academies and colleges in the education ministry's list of accredited institutions and programmes (230 with an institutional decision)
- How you get in
- Universities admit through their own methods, most using the national high-school graduation exam scores
- Taught in
- Vietnamese
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The ministry's list gives each accredited institution's and programme's accreditation body, result and certificate dates (3,300 programmes); universities not yet accredited aren't in it, and it has no enrolment, fees, entry scores or graduate outcomes.
Yemen
38 universities
- How you get in
- Admission on the secondary-school certificate percentage; each university sets its own procedure for foreign students
- Taught in
- Arabic
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by governorate with no figures, fees or programmes.
Also on this site
- More countries in Asia โ Brunei, the Maldives, Timor-Leste, Laos and Bhutan: every institution on each government's official list; Bahrain's universities from Wikidata, marked as not official; and where Kuwait stands.
What isn't here, and why
Asia is where the gap between published and reusable data is widest. Thailand's admission scores, Hong Kong's entry scores, Malaysia's entry data and India's opening and closing ranks are all published but reserved by their owners; Saudi Arabia's open-data portal can't be reached from outside the kingdom. Where that is the case the country's page says what the official source holds and why it isn't shown. Pakistan and Bangladesh are community-maintained lists from Wikidata, not official registers: their regulators' lists can't be republished, so each page names the regulator to check with before applying. Palestine is covered from its higher-education ministry's 2024/25 yearbook, which has figures for the West Bank institutions that reported; institutions in the Gaza Strip could not report and have no figures since 2023/24, and the yearbook gives no fees or entry requirements. Brunei, the Maldives, Timor-Leste, Laos and Bhutan have too few institutions for a section each; their official lists share one page, More countries in Asia, which also says where Bahrain and Kuwait stand โ their regulators' websites did not respond, so Bahrain's universities are listed there from Wikidata, in a separate block marked as not an official list. North Korea, Iran, Yemen, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan are community-maintained lists from Wikidata, not official registers; each page names the regulator to check with, and the Iran and North Korea pages list public information only.
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.
Other regions
Each country's figures come from the source credited on its own pages, under that source's licence. This page adds nothing to them; counts and labels are CollegeMatcher's.