Where should you study — and what can anyone actually tell you?

What it costs

$19,859/yrmedian net price after grant aid, across colleges — the only country here that publishes what families actually pay

What graduates earn

$54,869/yrmedian earnings 10 years after entering, across colleges

If you're coming from overseas

346,984 studentsinternational undergraduates across these colleges (median 2% of a campus); out-of-state tuition, the closest proxy for what they pay, runs about $21,114/yr

Entry system

GPA + SAT/ACT, essays, recommendations

Typical degree

4 years

The gap: Sticker price varies enormously; net price depends heavily on family income.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

£29,439/yrmedian earnings 5 years after graduating, across universities

If you're coming from overseas

88%median share of graduates in work or further study, 15 months out

Entry system

UCAS tariff points (A-levels, BTEC, Highers, IB)

Typical degree

3 years (4 in Scotland)

The gap: Tuition fees are not open data — they sit behind a paid UCAS licence, so we can't show what any course costs.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

52 of 52CRICOS-registered, meaning legally able to enrol international students — in Australia's case, all of them

Entry system

ATAR rank

Typical degree

3 years (4 with honours)

The gap: ATAR cut-offs, fees and graduate earnings exist in Course Seeker and ComparED but are copyrighted with no open licence, so we link to them rather than reproduce them.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

686 programmesconfirmed taught in English, out of 2,943 — the strongest English-taught offering of any non-anglophone country here

Entry system

VWO/HAVO diploma or equivalent; numerus fixus on some courses

Typical degree

3 years (wo bachelor), 4 years (hbo)

The gap: Tuition and entry data sit in the Studiekeuzedatabase, which is free but requires an application whose terms would require publishing our ranking algorithm.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

S$3,911/monthmedian gross starting salary six months after graduating — published per DEGREE, the finest granularity of any country here

If you're coming from overseas

91%median employment rate six months after graduating, across degrees

Entry system

Indicative Grade Profile, set per university

Typical degree

3–4 years

The gap: No central entry requirements or fees — each university sets and publishes its own.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

14%of all tertiary students are international (48,195 people) — 8 universities in total

Entry system

NCEA rank score, set per university

Typical degree

3 years

The gap: No open tuition or entry-score data; NCEA rank scores are set course by course.

What it costs

€178 or €2,895/yrthe nationally set licence fee for 2025-26 — the first figure if you hold EU/EEA or Swiss citizenship, the second if you don't. It is a national rate rather than an institutional price, so there is no cost comparison to make BETWEEN French universities, only between passports. Universities can exempt non-EU students from the higher rate, but a 2026 decree caps how many at 30% falling to 20%

What graduates earn

€2177/momedian net monthly pay 18 months after finishing, across the 227 institutions InserSup covers — a monthly net figure, so it is not comparable with the annual gross earnings the US and UK publish

If you're coming from overseas

14,079 formationseach published with the bac mention profile of the students actually admitted — France is the only country here that tells you the grades of everyone who got a place, formation by formation, rather than a single cut-off

Entry system

Parcoursup — bac results and school record, ranked per formation

Typical degree

3 years (licence), 2 (BTS/DUT), 5 (master)

The gap: Graduate employment and pay are published per institution, not per formation, and not at all for the BTS and CPGE taught inside lycées — which is most of the 3,641 participants. So the entry data is course-level and the outcomes data is not. Nor is there any published figure for what private institutions charge.

What it costs

₩6.63m/yrmedian annual tuition at a campus institution, and the only figure here published PER FIELD OF STUDY — 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 — a headcount, not a response rate, so it is not comparable with the earnings figures other countries publish

If you're coming from overseas

5.6:1applicants per place at the median institution, rising past 30:1 at the most contested. Korea does NOT publish 수능 scores per university, so this is how contested a place is — never the marks you need

Entry system

수능 (CSAT) plus school record, through 수시 and 정시 rounds

Typical degree

4 years (2–3 at a junior college)

The gap: 수능 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.

What it costs

€1385/yrmedian average paid by fee-paying students at a state university, 2024-25 — Italy scales fees by family income (ISEE) and exempts lower-income students entirely, so the average across ALL students is lower still and what you pay depends on your household income, not the university

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

1,240 English-taught degreesout of 5,995 programmes in 2025, fully or partly in English — alongside Finland and the Netherlands, one of the largest English-taught offerings in a non-anglophone country

Entry system

open admission for most degrees; capped programmes set their own tests

Typical degree

3 years (laurea) + 2 (magistrale)

The gap: No per-university entry scores (most degrees admit openly), no open graduate outcomes (AlmaLaurea is not open data), and dropout only as a national rate. The fee figures are averages, not prices.

What it costs

€913/yrmedian public-university tuition at a standard 60-credit year — dramatically cheaper than the US or UK, but private universities don't publish theirs

What graduates earn

€32.072/yrmedian average social security contribution base 4 years after graduating — the closest official Spanish equivalent of a salary

If you're coming from overseas

10,861 programmesacross 91 universities, with a cut-off mark published for each degree — Spain is the only country here besides the US publishing cost, outcomes AND selectivity

Entry system

EvAU/PAU exam score and nota de corte, set per degree

Typical degree

4 years (grado)

The gap: Teaching is mostly in Spanish, and private-university fees are not published openly.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

2,456 English-taught programmesout of 8,718 across 38 institutions — proportionally the largest English-taught offering of any non-anglophone country here, and the reason Finland is worth a look despite the language

Entry system

yhteishaku — a joint national application, scored on the matriculation exam or an entrance test

Typical degree

3 years (kandidaatti), 3.5–4 at an AMK

The gap: Tuition is free for EU/EEA and Swiss citizens; institutions must charge everyone else but set their own fees and none are published centrally, so we can show you no price. Graduate earnings sit with Statistics Finland rather than Vipunen and are not released per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

43,830 completions a yearagainst 145,627 students at the eight universities, with a 15-year series (2011–2025) behind both — Denmark publishes students, entrants AND completions per institution, which is rarer than it sounds

Entry system

karaktergennemsnit from upper secondary, through kvote 1 and kvote 2

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor) plus 2 (kandidat)

The gap: These are the eight universities only. Denmark does not publish professionshøjskoler or erhvervsakademier per institution at all — a large part of its higher education is simply absent from the statistics, not from our page. No per-institution tuition or graduate earnings either.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

87,934 degrees a yearawarded across every Swedish institution — Sweden publishes what each one produces, by degree type, back to 1977, but not how many students it enrols

Entry system

antagningspoäng from upper-secondary grades or the SweSAT

Typical degree

3 years (kandidat), 5 (civilingenjör)

The gap: Sweden's per-institution enrolment table was discontinued after 2008/09 and current student statistics sit with UKÄ, which has no public API. Tuition is free for EU/EEA citizens and unpublished for everyone else, and admission points are held by UHR rather than the statistics office.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

1,235 scored programmesNorway publishes the average opptakspoeng of everyone who applied to each programme, so you can see how competitive it actually is — the national median is about 49 and the hardest degrees reach the low 60s

Entry system

opptakspoeng — upper-secondary grades plus age and subject bonuses

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor), 5 (integrated master)

The gap: Norway abolished free study for non-EEA students in 2023, but each institution sets its own fees and DBH publishes none of them — so we can show you how hard a degree is to get into, and not what it will cost you.

What it costs

C$2,954–C$6,488/yrBritish Columbia only: the provincial ministry's 2025/26 tuition for a typical full-time undergraduate arts student, for Canadian students, at the 22 of its 25 public institutions that report an arts figure (international students: C$12,031–C$49,549). Other provinces publish no tuition per institution

What graduates earn

C$66,000/yrBritish Columbia only: median annual salary reported by bachelor's graduates of B.C.'s public institutions in BC Stats' surveys, 2023 to 2025 pooled, one to two years after their programme. Ontario publishes employment rates per institution but not pay; other provinces publish neither

If you're coming from overseas

24% internationalacross the institutions Statistics Canada publishes the split for — the only country here where the international share is known per institution, which matters now that study-permit caps are in force

Entry system

provincial secondary-school average; each institution sets its own bar

Typical degree

4 years (Bachelor), 2–3 (college diploma)

The gap: Statistics Canada publishes enrolment and graduates per institution, but tuition and graduate earnings only by province and field of study. British Columbia publishes both per institution and Ontario publishes graduate employment rates; for Quebec, Alberta and the other provinces we can show you how international an institution is, and not what it costs or what its graduates earn.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

5.5M studentsacross 2,886 institutions and 5,523 campuses — one of the largest systems in the Americas, and the census counts every one

Entry system

each institution sets its own entrance exam; no national cut-off register

Typical degree

4–5 years (licenciatura)

The gap: Mexico's census gives enrolment, graduates and staff per institution, but the country publishes no per-institution tuition, entry cut-offs or graduate earnings at all — earnings exist only by field of study nationally.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

16 joint-venture & foreign campuseson the Ministry of Education's 2,952-institution list — Sino-foreign universities, mainland–Hong Kong/Macau ventures and foreign campuses in Hainan

Entry system

高考 (gaokao), with provincial cut-off scores

Typical degree

4 years (本科)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

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

Entry system

unified national examinations, administered by the Assessment and Testing Centre

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

¥535,800/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 — 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

If you're coming from overseas

2,972,412 studentsat 812 universities, per the Ministry's 2025 School Basic Survey — published only as national and prefectural totals

Entry system

university-run entrance exams, plus the national Common Test for national and many public universities

Typical degree

4 years (6 for medicine)

The gap: Per-university data exists in 大学ポートレート (University Portraits) but its terms grant no reuse, so there are no per-institution fees outside the national standard, no official entry scores — hensachi are private exam-company estimates — and no open graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

933 international programmesregistered with the ministry across 71 institutions, usually taught in English — and 42,883 international students already enrolled

Entry system

TCAS — the national admission system, run in rounds

Typical degree

4 years (6 for medicine)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

8 branch campusesof foreign universities — Monash, Nottingham, Heriot-Watt, Southampton, Xiamen and others — among 55 private universities, which is where much of Malaysia's international study happens. The private list is from Wikidata, not an official register

Entry system

UPU centralised admission for public universities; private universities admit directly

Typical degree

3–4 years

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

12% from outside the EUof 278,880 students at HEA-funded institutions in 2024/25, by home address when they applied — published per institution

Entry system

CAO points for undergraduate entry; direct application for postgraduate and non-EU students

Typical degree

3–4 years (honours degree)

The gap: Covers only the institutions that report to the Higher Education Authority; private colleges don't. No per-institution fees or graduate earnings as open data, and CAO points aren't reproduced.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

280 English-taught programmesin Flanders, where enrolment is published per programme with its language of instruction — 334,245 enrolments in 2024/25

Entry system

Open entry with a secondary diploma for most programmes; entrance exams for medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine, and auditions or tests for the arts

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's)

The gap: The French-speaking community publishes its register of institutions but no enrolment per institution, so Wallonia–Brussels is listed without numbers. Fees aren't published per programme.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

7,738 foreign-national placesreserved in 2025 for foreign nationals who finished school abroad, split into EU and non-EU quotas

Entry system

One national exam (Panhellenic) with a published cut-off per department; a separate quota for foreign nationals, ranked on their school-leaving grade

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: No per-institution fees or graduate outcomes as open data, and the census doesn't count international students — only the admission quota shows them.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

619 English-taught programmesbachelor's and master's registered to teach in English for 2026/27, from the government's decree

Entry system

Each university admits by its own exam or file, within places capped by the government's annual accreditation decree

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's); 4 for engineering

The gap: No per-university enrolment newer than 2020/21 is open data, and tuition fees are set by each university — none are published centrally.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

42 branch campusesof foreign universities on the higher-education ministry's 2026 register of 93 institutions

Entry system

Each institution admits on school grades and its own requirements; the ministry publishes each one's acceptance rate

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

National Senior Certificate results converted to an Admission Point Score (APS), which each university sets per programme

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's), 4 for professional degrees

The gap: Fees and admission point scores are set and published by each university, with no national register, and the Department's report has no international-student count per university.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

JAMB's UTME exam plus each university's own post-UTME screening; direct entry with A-levels or a diploma

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's), 5–6 for engineering, law and medicine

The gap: The regulator's newest openly licensed statistics are for 2019, so universities licensed since are missing, and there are no fees or cut-off marks per university under any licence.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

4.3% from abroad110,906 of 2,608,231 undergraduates are foreign students, reported per institution in the 2024 yearbook

Entry system

A secondary-school certificate; national universities mostly admit without an entrance exam, some after a preparatory course

Typical degree

5 years (licenciatura and professional degrees)

The gap: Undergraduate study at national universities is tuition-free, private fees are not published as data, and there are no entry scores because there is no national entrance exam.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university runs its own admission exam; there is no national entrance test

Typical degree

5 years (carrera profesional)

The gap: The regulator's open data covers licensing and programmes; applicants, admitted and enrolled per university come from the statistics office (2024). No fees, and entry scores for part of one university only.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Set by each institution; the branch campuses apply their home university's admission standards

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

23,029 enrolments of foreign nationalsof 10,227,266 undergraduate enrolments in the 2024 census — counted per course, so not a headcount

Entry system

The national ENEM exam, used through SISU for public universities; many institutions also run their own vestibular

Typical degree

4–5 years (bacharelado), 2–3 for a technology degree

The gap: Federal and state institutions are tuition-free, private fees are not in the census, and ENEM cut-off scores are a separate system that isn't part of this data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

General Education Diploma results, with places allocated centrally by the Higher Education Admission Center

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's), usually after a foundation year

The gap: Oman publishes each institution's centrally placed intake and accreditation status, but not total enrolment at private institutions, programme lists, fees or entry scores.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

A completed secondary education; the public Universidad de la República has no entrance exam

Typical degree

4–5 years (licenciatura and professional degrees)

The gap: The two public universities charge no undergraduate tuition, private fees are not published as data, and there are no entry scores because the public university admits without an exam.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The Saber 11 state exam, with each institution setting its own admission process

Typical degree

5 years (university degree), 3 for a technologist programme

The gap: The openly licensed register dates from July 2022, and the ministry's current enrolment figures and tuition values are under terms that forbid commercial reuse.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The national PAES admission test, with centralised application to most universities

Typical degree

5 years (licenciatura and professional title)

The gap: Chile publishes fees, vacancies, enrolment and graduates for every programme, but labels them for non-commercial use only — so this is the ministry's register of recognised institutions and nothing more.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

A national admission process for public universities; private universities set their own

Typical degree

4–5 years (licenciatura and professional degrees)

The gap: The ministry's enrolment and programme data is licensed for non-commercial use only, so this is the council's list of authorised universities with their accreditation status and nothing more.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The national admission system (OPSU) assigns places at public universities; private ones admit directly

Typical degree

5 years (licenciatura and professional degrees)

The gap: Venezuela publishes no enrolment, fees or admission figures per institution; this is the national catalogue's list of institutions, which carries no date.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university's own admission exam or preparatory course

Typical degree

5 years (licenciatura)

The gap: The ministry last published its list of private universities in 2016, and no enrolment, fees or admission figures are available for reuse.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

12.3% foreign citizens2,393 of 19,528 students in autumn 2025 hold a foreign citizenship — published for the country as a whole, not per university (our calculation from Statistics Iceland's table)

Entry system

Each university admits directly on a completed upper-secondary qualification; some programmes add entrance tests

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Public universities charge a registration fee rather than tuition, but may now charge non-EEA students tuition; private fees, entry requirements and outcomes are not published as data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university sets its own admission; public universities usually run an entrance course or exam

Typical degree

4–6 years (licenciatura and professional degrees)

The gap: Paraguay accredits individual programmes rather than universities, and publishes no enrolment, fees or admission figures per university.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The University of Costa Rica ranks applicants on one admission score (200–800), combining its Prueba de Aptitud Académica with high-school grades, and fills each programme at each campus from the top; the score of the last applicant admitted is published

Typical degree

4 years (bachillerato); longer with a licenciatura

The gap: Only the University of Costa Rica publishes its admission data as open data — 165 programme × campus cut-offs for 2026 — so Costa Rica's other public universities (TEC, UNA, UNED, UTN) and its private universities are not covered, and UCR's files carry no fees or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

One national application; where a programme is oversubscribed, candidates are ranked on admission points (0–100) built mostly from the matura and upper-secondary grades, and the points of the last candidate admitted are published

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Only 109 of 469 programme entries were oversubscribed enough to publish a minimum; the rest admitted everyone eligible. The table covers Slovenian and EU applicants only, and has no fees or outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Three routes: individual application, the Stars programme and distribution admission (分發入學), which ranks candidates on national exam subject scores weighted differently by every department and publishes each department's lowest admitted total

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Only the distribution route is covered — 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

5.1% from abroad41,398 of 819,493 students hold no Kazakh citizenship, counted per university on the Ministry's platform

Entry system

Unified National Testing (UNT) results decide admission and the award of state grants

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Tuition is set by each university and not published centrally, and there are no open entry thresholds or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

260 course cut-offsthe 2025/26 minimum Z-score for every state-university course, district by district

Entry system

A-level Z-score, with a cut-off per course for each of 25 districts set by the University Grants Commission

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

WASSCE results, with each university setting its own aggregate cut-offs per programme

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Ghana's official register, programme accreditation and per-institution statistics (GTEC) reserve all rights, so this is a Wikidata list of universities by region and nothing more.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

KCSE results; government-sponsored places are allocated centrally by KUCCPS on cluster points per programme

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Kenya's register, accredited programmes, enrolment and KUCCPS cut-off points all reserve rights or are licensed non-commercially, so this is a Wikidata list of universities by county and nothing more.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Advanced-level national exam results; each institution sets its own requirements

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Rwanda publishes no per-institution enrolment, fees or outcomes, and its accreditation list states no reuse terms, so this is a Wikidata list of universities and nothing more.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

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

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

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

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Pancyprian examinations for Cypriot school-leavers at the public universities; international students apply to each university directly

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. We found no official list of institutions we could republish, so this is a community-maintained list by district with no figures, fees or programmes; institutions in the north are not listed.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat, with places at public universities allocated through the ministry's national orientation process

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. The higher-education ministry publishes no list of authorised institutions we could republish, so this is a community-maintained list by district with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat; public universities admit holders of the relevant series, some faculties with their own selection

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. The higher-education directorate (DGESRS) lists institutions under a copyright notice with no reuse terms, so this is a community-maintained list by region with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

WASSCE results, with each university setting its own entrance examination

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. The National Commission on Higher Education publishes no list we could find or republish (its website did not resolve), so this is a community-maintained list by county with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

WASSCE results, with each university setting its own entry requirements

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. The Tertiary Education Commission publishes no list we could find or republish, so this is a community-maintained list by province with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

National exam (YKS) with central placement by score for Turkish students; universities set their own terms for international applicants

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Turkey's official student statistics and programme entry scores, quotas and fees (YÖK Atlas) carry no licence to republish, so this is a Wikidata list of universities by province and nothing more.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

National selection for public universities (SNBP on school record, SNBT by test) plus each university's own admission

Typical degree

4 years (sarjana)

The gap: The ministry's national database holds enrolment, graduates and accreditation per institution and programme, but its data portal reserves all rights — so this is a Wikidata list by province, which may include institutions that have since closed or merged.

What it costs

€726.72 a semesterat public universities for most students from outside the EU/EEA; EU/EEA students pay no tuition within the standard length of their programme, and everyone pays the €26.20 student union fee

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

No entrance test for just over half of public-university bachelor's; selection procedures at Fachhochschulen and in capped fields

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Student numbers per institution are published only for the public universities, and the programme register doesn't record the language of instruction.

What it costs

Free in Czechat public universities, for every nationality; programmes taught in a foreign language charge tuition set by each university

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

18% foreign studentsof 330,547 students in 2025, published per university and faculty since 2001

Entry system

Each faculty admits on its own entrance exams or school results

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's)

The gap: No open programme-level list or fees; entrance requirements are set faculty by faculty.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

1,118 degreeswith the share of recent graduates registered as unemployed with the public employment service — registered unemployment, not a survey

Entry system

Concurso Nacional de Acesso — national competition on secondary grades and entrance exams

Typical degree

3 years (licenciatura), 5–6 (integrated master's)

The gap: No per-programme fees as open data, and entry figures exist only for degrees filled through the national access competition — not master's, doctorates or international-student routes.

What it costs

PLN 14,600 a yearmedian fee for study in a foreign language, across 625 programmes that report one to the ministry. Full-time study in Polish at public universities is free for Polish and EU/EEA citizens

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

967 English-taught programmesregistered with the Ministry of Science at 141 universities

Entry system

Each university admits on matura (school-leaving exam) results, programme by programme

Typical degree

3–3.5 years (bachelor's), 5–6 (long-cycle master's)

The gap: Admission requirements are set by each university and not published as one dataset; graduate earnings exist (the ELA tracking system) but aren't yet on these pages.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

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

Typical degree

4 years (BTech), 5 years (BArch, dual degrees), 3 years (BA/BSc)

The gap: 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 — the wider list still comes from Wikidata.

What it costs

€0 tuitionpublic universities generally charge no undergraduate tuition, including to international students — you pay only a semester contribution of a few hundred euros. Baden-Württemberg charges non-EU students, and private universities set their own fees

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

2,243,747+ studentsacross 371 institutions — Germany is among the largest study destinations in Europe, and the tuition position is the main reason

Entry system

Abitur or recognised equivalent; Numerus Clausus on popular subjects

Typical degree

3 years (Bachelor)

The gap: Germany publishes no institution-level fees, entry cut-offs or graduate earnings, and its federal programme database needs written permission to republish — so this is a directory built from Wikidata rather than an official register.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Most bachelor's places are allocated nationally on the state matura (državna matura) and school grades

Typical degree

3 years (university bachelor's) + 2 (master's)

The gap: Tuition fees, entry cut-offs and graduate outcomes are not published per programme as open data, and per-institution foreign-student figures (in Srce's ISVU data) are not included yet.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

28.8% educated abroad50,820 of 176,332 students at Swiss universities in 2025/26 gained their university entrance qualification abroad (Bildungsausländer) — published per institution by the Federal Statistical Office; not the same as foreign nationality (our calculation)

Entry system

Universities admit holders of the Swiss Matura or an equivalent foreign qualification; universities of applied sciences mostly a vocational baccalaureate plus work experience; some programmes (e.g. medicine) add an aptitude test

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Tuition, entry requirements and graduate outcomes are not published per institution as open data, and swissuniversities' fee tables may not be reused.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each faculty ranks its first-year applicants for state-funded and self-financing places; at state institutions the government sets the number of state-funded places each year

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's, 180–240 ECTS)

The gap: Student numbers are published per university, not per faculty or programme, and no tuition, entrance cut-offs or graduate outcomes are published per institution as open data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

82% employed a year onshare of 2023 graduates employed in November 2024, across the 47 institutions whose split the ministry publishes (our sum of its counts) — graduates with no information, which includes many foreign graduates, count as not employed

Entry system

Each institution runs its own admission, mostly ranking applicants on secondary-school centralised exam results; there is no national cut-off

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: The open data covers what graduates did afterwards, not entry requirements, fees or student numbers per institution; income is withheld wherever 30 or fewer graduates in a group were employed.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

National Multi-Subject Test (НМТ), four subjects on a 100–200 scale; state-funded places are allocated nationally by competitive score through EDEBO

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); 5–6 years for the integrated master's in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy

The gap: No fees, graduate outcomes or foreign-student numbers are published per institution as open data, and the register does not record where relocated universities now teach.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

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 — admissions, not enrolment (our sum of the University Grants Committee's figures per university)

Entry system

Local school-leavers apply through JUPAS on their HKDSE results; non-local and other applicants apply to each university directly

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat: most faculties of law, letters and sciences take holders of the matching stream, while medical faculties and engineering, business and technology schools select on baccalauréat marks, some with an entrance exam

Typical degree

3 years (licence); 5 at engineering and business schools

The gap: The open data is a list of the public universities' establishments with their student counts — no private universities, programmes, fees, entry cut-offs or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

8.5% foreign students373,429 foreign citizens among 4,412,381 bachelor's, specialist and master's students (headcount, all study forms) at the institutions and branches listed — our sum of the ministry's monitoring, 2025 round

Entry system

The ЕГЭ (Unified State Exam) for Russian school-leavers; most foreign applicants are admitted through the government quota or the university's own entrance tests

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); 5–6 years for the specialist degree

The gap: The monitoring publishes no fees, no programme list and no entry score per programme — only institution-wide ЕГЭ averages — and no graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

1.0% born abroad5,343 of 520,524 students in 2024 were born outside the Dominican Republic — country of birth, not nationality (our sum over MESCyT's per-institution table)

Entry system

Each institution sets its own admission requirements on the secondary-school diploma (bachiller); none are published as data

Typical degree

About 4 years (licenciatura); técnico superior is shorter

The gap: MESCyT's yearbook gives counts per institution but no fees, admission requirements, programme lists or graduate outcomes, and its site reserves all rights, so only the figures are used.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

218 specialtiesin DİM's 2024 specialty list whose name says they are taught in English

Entry system

Centralised two-stage exam run by the State Examination Center: out of 700 for specialty groups I–IV (300 + 400); group V adds a special-ability exam

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); longer for medicine

The gap: DİM 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 DİM's competition.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

2.6%of students in 2024 were not Namibian citizens — published for the whole country, not per institution

Entry system

School-leaving results (NSSCO and NSSCH in Namibia) against each institution's own minimum points and subject requirements

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's); 4 for an honours degree

The gap: The yearbook gives students, staff and examination results per institution, but no fees, entry requirements or graduate outcomes per institution — graduates are counted only for the whole country.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university admits directly; the University of Panama, the largest, runs a yearly admission process with its own tests

Typical degree

Varies by degree (licenciatura is the first degree)

The gap: Private universities' enrolment is confidential by law and only published as one national total, and no fees, admission requirements or graduate outcomes are published per university.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

A-level (Form Six) results: two principal passes worth at least 4.0 points for most programmes, more for some; applications go to each institution's online system and TCU coordinates confirmations

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's), 4–5 for engineering, health and architecture

The gap: The open data is TCU's list of approved institutions and its guidebook's minimum points and places per programme — published minimums, not the scores of those admitted, and no fees, enrolment or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

A levels (ZIMSEC or Cambridge) or an equivalent, with five O-level passes including English; each university sets its own requirements and selects its own students

Typical degree

4 years for most honours bachelor's degrees

The gap: The regulator's list names each registered university's accredited programmes, but gives no fees, student numbers, entry cut-offs or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

4,703 paid-place scoresthe 2025 lowest score admitted to a paid (contract) place per programme, study form and language

Entry system

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

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: The national test and its scores are for applicants from Uzbekistan — foreign citizens apply to each university directly. Only paid-place scores are published per programme — since 2025 state-funded places are allocated nationally and their scores are 0 in the table — and there are no fees, enrolment or outcomes per institution; private universities and foreign branch campuses are not in the data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

1,273 programme percentagesthe 2026 general-list admission percentage for every programme at the government universities

Entry system

Secondary-certificate percentage over seven subjects set per college group; the ministry nominates centrally and publishes each programme's percentage and tie-break, in separate lists for the Sudanese certificate, state quotas and Arab or foreign certificates

Typical degree

4–5 years (bachelor's); 5–6 years for medicine

The gap: The results cover government institutions only and only for 2026 — no earlier year, no enrolment, fees or outcomes per institution — and private institutions' fees, published in the ministry's guide one institution at a time, aren't included.

What it costs

US$2,000–5,000 a yearfees for Arab and foreign students at public universities, 2026/27, by faculty (plus US$1,000 once on registration) — ministry Announcement No. 9

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

1,286 admission optionsthe 2026/27 minimum percentage the ministry set for each programme, public and private

Entry system

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

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); 5 for engineering, 6 for medicine

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university admits directly; the state university, USAC, requires a vocational-orientation test, basic-knowledge tests and its faculties' own entry tests

Typical degree

Licenciatura (first degree): most are recorded at 4–5 years

The gap: No enrolment, fees, admission requirements or graduate outcomes are published per university as open data, and the national register lists programmes without saying whether each is still taught.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university admits directly; UNAH and the other public universities set their own admission tests

Typical degree

4–5 years (licenciatura)

The gap: The higher-education directorate publishes students per institution by sex, but no programme lists, fees, admission requirements or outcomes, and states no reuse terms, so only its figures are used.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution admits directly; the public Universidad de El Salvador runs a yearly admission process with an online aptitude test and a general knowledge test

Typical degree

Licenciatura (first degree) is the most common; programme lengths are not in the ministry's data

The gap: No fees, admission requirements or graduate outcomes are published per institution as data, and the latest enrolment by institution is for the first term of 2023.

What it costs

150,000–250,000 FCFA/yrAbdou Moumouni University's published registration fee for a licence for students from outside the WAEMU, depending on the faculty; Nigeriens and citizens of the WAEMU countries it lists pay 10,000 FCFA for the first year. One university's fees, not a national rate

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

8.3% citizens of other countries8,436 of 101,159 students in 2024-25 — published for the country as a whole, not per institution (our calculation from the ministry's yearbook)

Entry system

The baccalauréat or an equivalent; students apply to each university, which selects by faculty — at Abdou Moumouni University through an online pre-registration and a file naming three programmes in order of preference

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: Figures are published for each public university and public grande école only — the private institutions are named but counted only in totals — and there are no entry cut-offs, programme lists or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

School leavers apply through DHERST's National Online Application System (NOAS); universities admit non-nationals directly

Typical degree

Usually 4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: The register's programme list dates from December 2021 and most review dates on it have passed, and no enrolment, fee or admission figures are published per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Mongolian school-leavers sit the General Entrance Examination (ЭЕШ) run by the Education Evaluation Center; international students apply to each university directly

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); 5–6 for medicine

The gap: Mongolia's open data covers which institutions are licensed and accredited, and which programmes are accredited — it publishes no enrolment, fees, entrance-exam (ЭЕШ) cut-offs or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

17.6% foreign students11,852 foreign nationals among 67,439 students in 2025/26 (the ministry's yearbook) — most of them Congolese, and most at one private university

Entry system

The Diplôme d'État (national secondary-school exam), with a competitive entrance exam for some programmes; foreign diplomas need an equivalence

Typical degree

3 years (Baccalauréat); 2 more for a Master

The gap: The ministry's yearbook gives students per institution and programme and foreign students by nationality, but no fees, admission requirements or graduate outcomes, and states no licence, so only its figures are used.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

4.2%of higher-education students in 2022/23 were international students, from 45 countries — published for the whole country, not per institution

Entry system

School-leaving results (BGCSE or an equivalent at NCQF level 4) against each institution's minimum points and subject grades — the University of Botswana asks for at least 34 points for a degree

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); 5 for some at the University of Botswana, such as law and engineering

The gap: The report gives each institution's students and graduates, but no fees, entry requirements, women's share or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution runs its own admission — public universities set entrance exams; some courses admit on documents

Typical degree

4 years (licenciatura)

The gap: The open source is the quality agency's 2024 evaluation report, which names only the institutions it evaluated; no enrolment, fees, admission figures or outcomes are published per institution, and the ministry's list of institutions could not be reached.

What it costs

200,000 FCFA/yrthe registration fee for a licence at a public university for students from outside the UEMOA and the other countries the ministerial order lists (25,000 FCFA for Senegalese and those countries' students) — arrêté of 15 January 2015; private institutions set their own fees

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat; new bacheliers — including holders of a foreign baccalauréat — apply to public universities through the national platform Campusen, ranking their choices; private institutions also admit directly

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: The quality agency's lists hold decisions only — 1,011 programme decisions and the institutions' habilitation opinions — with no student numbers, fees, entry requirements or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

19% free placesthe share of places in the 2026/27 plan that are state-funded — foreign citizens living in Tajikistan may apply only for the paid ones

Entry system

One centralised entrance exam run by the National Testing Centre, in one of five specialty groups (four subjects each); applicants list up to 12 programme–institution–form choices

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat or the GCE Advanced Level; students apply to each institution, and selective schools admit through entrance exams (concours) announced by the ministry

Typical degree

3 years (licence, LMD system); a professional master's takes 4 semesters after the licence

The gap: The ministry's directory is the 2022 edition and lists programmes and authorisations only — no enrolment, fees, admission cut-offs or graduate outcomes per institution, and nothing on the state universities' own programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat; new bac holders make three choices on the ministry's platform apresmonbac.bj and are ranked per programme on three bac subjects (or sit a competitive exam) for funded and partly-paid places at the public universities; private institutions admit directly

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: The ministry's guide gives funded-place quotas, entry mode, bac series and subjects for public programmes and only programme names for private ones — no student numbers, fees, cut-off averages or graduate outcomes per institution, and no route for international students.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution admits directly through its own admission call; public universities set their own entry requirements

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's, 180–240 ECTS)

The gap: No fees, entry scores, graduate outcomes or language of instruction are published per programme; enrolment figures stop at 2023/24 and some years don't add up in the source.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university admits on the general secondary (Tawjihi) average, competitively against the places in each programme, and sets its own minimum averages every year

Typical degree

Bachelor's is the main degree; intermediate diplomas at community and university colleges

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

National test (ОРТ) run by the Center for Educational Assessment and Teaching Methods, with subject tests; places allocated online through «Абитуриент Online»; foreign citizens may take the university's own entrance tests instead

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's); 5–6 for medicine

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Free in Slovakfull-time, within the standard length, at public universities, for every nationality (Act 300/2025 § 96); programmes taught only in a foreign language about €750–€11,000 a year

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each faculty sets its own admission criteria, deadlines and entrance exams; apply to the faculty directly

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Admission figures cover Slovak citizens only and the programme lists count applications, not people; no fees, entry scores, outcomes or foreign-student numbers per university are published as open data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Georgian school-leavers enter through the Unified National Examinations; foreign applicants apply to each university directly, outside the national exams

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's, 240 ECTS); one-cycle programmes such as medicine are longer

The gap: The register gives no enrolment, fees, entry scores, programme list or graduate outcomes per institution — only each one's type, legal form, levels, website and authorisation periods.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

8.3% citizens of other countries4,591 of 55,036 undergraduates in 2025/26 are citizens of other countries — published for the country as a whole, not per institution (our calculation from the State Statistical Office's table 175)

Entry system

Each university publishes its own enrolment calls; at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, foreign students apply to the university directly

Typical degree

First-cycle study runs up to six years (the State Statistical Office counts first-cycle students in years I–VI; few are beyond year IV)

The gap: Fees, entry scores and graduate outcomes are not published per institution; the statistics cover undergraduate (first-cycle) students only.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The Commission's Study in Europe profile says applicants apply under EU-citizen rules, through bilateral agreements or as international non-EU students, and should check each university's admission requirements

Typical degree

Bachelor's (mostly 4 years), professional bachelor's (3 years), master's after a degree (mostly 1–2 years) and integrated master's after secondary school (5–6 years: medicine, law, architecture and some others)

The gap: The register gives each institution's accreditation decisions and grades and its 4,524 bachelor's and master's programmes (form, length, language); it holds no enrolment, fees, entry scores or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Tunisian students are placed through the national orientation system after the baccalauréat; students from abroad apply through the ministry's fee-paying programme for international students

Typical degree

Licence (bachelor's) 3 years and master's 2 years; the national engineering diploma takes 3 years after two preparatory years; medicine, dentistry and pharmacy run longer

The gap: The ministry's open data gives students by field for 2020/21 to 2022/23, graduates of 2021–22 by diploma and speciality, and teaching staff, per public institution; no fees, entry scores, programmes or graduate outcomes, and no private institutions.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

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

Typical degree

Bachelor's mostly 4 years (some 3), master's 2 years; medical degrees run longer

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Central admission by the ministry, ranked on the secondary-school (sixth preparatory) average by stream; students from abroad apply under separate rules

Typical degree

Bachelor's mostly 4 years; dentistry and pharmacy 5, medicine 6; technical programmes 2 years

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

LAMA BPO's general admission covers first-cycle and integrated studies; Study in Lithuania says students from abroad apply to each university, which has its own requirements and application process

Typical degree

Bachelor's (first cycle, mostly 180–240 credits), master's (second cycle, mostly 90–120) and integrated long-cycle studies (mostly 300–360)

The gap: The open data gives students and graduates per programme (1,278 programmes with students or admissions), general-admission invitations and signed contracts, and each programme's latest accreditation decision; no fees, entry scores, language of instruction or graduate outcomes per programme.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution admits its own students; the Higher Education Authority registers institutions and accredits their programmes

Typical degree

Bachelor's degrees mostly 4 years, master's 1–2 years; diplomas and certificates shorter

The gap: HEA's published registry gives each institution's type, sector and province and its 2,127 accredited programmes by level; no fees, enrolment, entry requirements or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Universities admit through their own methods, most using the national high-school graduation exam scores

Typical degree

Bachelor's mostly 4 years (engineering and medicine longer), master's 1.5–2 years

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Foreign applicants apply to a university; the education ministry checks the file and issues the acceptance letter, then the Bureau for Migration and Asylum issues the study invitation (Moldova State University's regulation on foreign students)

Typical degree

Bachelor's (licență, cycle I) and master's (cycle II); several master's programmes in the register are listed as 90 or 120 credits

The gap: ANACEC's register gives each programme's level, form and accreditation term (432 marked active at institutions on the ministry's list); no fees, enrolment, admission scores or graduate outcomes are published per institution as open data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Ugandan school-leavers apply to public universities through the Public Universities Joint Admissions Board on weighted A-level points; private universities and other institutions admit directly

Typical degree

Bachelor's mostly 3 years (4–5 for engineering, medicine and some others); master's 1–2 years

The gap: NCHE's lists give each institution's licence status and district and 3,307 programmes with their accreditation and expiry dates; no fees, enrolment, entry scores or graduate outcomes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Albanian applicants are ranked on their state Matura results; each institution sets its own admission criteria

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's, 180 ECTS); 5–6 years for integrated master's such as medicine

The gap: No enrolment, fees, entry scores or graduate outcomes are published per institution; the accreditation agency's lists give accreditation decisions and their periods only.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution admits directly through its own published admission call (konkurs), on its own entrance exam or ranking rules

Typical degree

3–4 years (first cycle)

The gap: The State Register lists institutions and their accreditation periods only — no programmes, fees, entry scores, student numbers or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The University of Montenegro fills state-funded first-year places through a public call, ranking applicants on secondary-school results, with entrance exams for some programmes; private universities and faculties admit directly

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor's, 180 ECTS) + 2 (master's)

The gap: The accreditation register lists programmes only: fees, entry requirements, student numbers and graduate outcomes are not published with it per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution admits directly; Study in Estonia directs international applicants to its online platform, DreamApply

Typical degree

3–4 years (bachelor's and professional higher education); nursing 3.5, midwifery 4.5

The gap: Which study-programme groups each institution may teach has been a ministerial decision since 2019 and we found no published list of those decisions; no student numbers, fees, entry thresholds or outcomes are published per institution as open data.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

2.0% citizens of other countries1,253 of 61,502 first-cycle students in 2022-23 — published for the country as a whole, not per institution (our calculation from the ministry's yearbook)

Entry system

The baccalauréat; the state places (orients) new baccalauréat holders at public institutions, and it stopped placing students at private institutions in 2017, the ministry's yearbook says

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: The latest yearbook is for 2022-23; it gives first-cycle students per institution but no fees, entry scores or graduate outcomes, and several private institutions it counts have no figures in its tables.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat: new Algerian bac holders are placed through the ministry's national orientation, ranked on their bac average within the bac streams each programme accepts; students from abroad apply through the ministry's Study in Algeria platform and pay tuition fees

Typical degree

3 years for a licence (bachelor's) under the LMD system; some programmes, such as medicine, are longer

The gap: The open data is the ministry's orientation circular — which bac streams each programme accepts and the minimum bac average it states, eligibility floors rather than the averages of those admitted — with no places, enrolment, fees or graduate outcomes per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The baccalauréat; admission is run by each establishment

Typical degree

3 years (licence)

The gap: The ministry's list (August 2022, its latest edition) holds habilitations only — 1,166 programmes and their orders — with no student numbers, fees, entry requirements or outcomes per establishment; the current list is on a login-only platform.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Public institutions such as the Universidade Agostinho Neto hold their own entrance examination (exame de acesso) once a year

Typical degree

Licenciatura (first degree); programme lengths are not in the decrees

The gap: Only the public network the presidential decree defines is listed, by name and seat: the ministry's per-institution statistics allow only non-profit reproduction, and private institutions, fees and entry requirements are not covered.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

State admission to universities; no route for foreign applicants is published

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Public universities admit through the national entrance examination (konkur); foreign students apply to each university or through the ministry's channels

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Centralised testing (ЦТ/ЦЭ) for Belarusian school-leavers; foreign students apply to each university, usually after a preparatory year

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. The Ministry of Education's terms allow commercial reuse of its material only under a written contract, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by region with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Admission on the secondary-school certificate; each university sets its own procedure for foreign students

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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 district with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Admission on the secondary-school certificate percentage; each university sets its own procedure for foreign students

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Matriculation examination marks for state universities; each university sets its own procedure for foreign students

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The national Kankor examination for public universities; women have been banned from universities since December 2022 (UNESCO)

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university admits on its own entrance test or the secondary-school certificate

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by region with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Admission on the secondary-school certificate through the ministry for public universities; each private university admits directly

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by state with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Admission on the state examination (examen d'État) diploma; each university sets its own procedure for foreign students

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the higher-education ministry, MINESURSI could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by province with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university sets its own entrance examination (concours d'admission)

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the education ministry, MENFP could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by department with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each university admits on the bachillerato with its own test; foreign students apply to the university directly

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: Wikidata only; no official list. No list from the Consejo Nacional de Universidades (CNU) could be read or republished, so this is a community-maintained list of universities by department or region with no figures, fees or programmes.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

The national school-leaving examination and central placement for public universities; foreign students apply to each university

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

Each institution's own entrance examinations, set annually by the state; foreign students apply through the ministry

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor's)

The gap: 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.