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Higher education guide

Find where to study in Mauritania

Every university, school and institute in one place: programmes, cities and admission, with a link to the official source behind each fact.

Institutions
30
Cities
7
Public
20
Private
10
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New bachelier? Pre-registration and orientation happen onetudiants-mesrs.app

Key dates

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    Université de Nouakchott: registration on Khidmaty

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    Eiffel scholarship: French schools send nominations

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    Türkiye Scholarships: applications

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Which studies does your Bac open?

Choose your Bac series to see the fields it usually leads to, then the institutions that teach them.

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From the Bac to your first lecture

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  1. Pass the baccalauréat

    The first session is held in July, with results in late July or early August. If you miss it, you can sit the complementary session in mid-August.

  2. Rank your choices online

    Register on the ministry student platform, etudiants-mesrs.app, and list the programmes you want in order of preference. The same platform handles grant applications.

  3. Get your orientation

    The national grants commission (CNB) places students by rank, choice order and capacity. Selective schools such as medicine, ESP and ISSM are filled first, right after the first-session results; open-access programmes follow after the complementary session.

  4. Register at your institution

    Since 2025, public institutions register new students online through the Khidmaty portal. Pay the fees by mobile wallet and download your student number and certificate. In 2025 the window ran from 8 October to 9 November.

Higher education in numbers

Share of young people in higher education

Tertiary gross enrollment ratio by sex, 2001–2020 (%). 23,417 students were enrolled in 2019.

02468102005201020152020Women 4.4%Men 7.7%
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YearWomen (%)Men (%)
20011.25.8
20021.34.8
20031.45.2
20041.65.1
20051.54.7
20061.85.2
20082.35.9
20092.36.0
20102.66.9
20112.87.5
20123.18.1
20133.38.5
20153.78.3
20163.57.8
20173.37.2
20183.47.0
20194.27.7
20204.47.7

Source: World Bank Open Data(UNESCO). Fetched when this site was built.

Students in higher education2026
51,214Up from 22,679 in 2019, according to the Minister of Higher Education.Journal Tahalil, 4 October 2026
Institutions, public and private2026
46As counted on the Ministry of Higher Education website.MESRS website (archived April 2026)
Bac pass rate, first session2026
13.6%8,188 of the 60,376 candidates who sat the exam passed the first session.Le360 Afrique, 25 July 2026
Women among students2020
37.7%9,204 of 24,444 tertiary students, the latest UNESCO count.UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Access rate to higher education2026
10%Ministry figure, up from 5.8% in 2019. It is measured differently from the UNESCO ratio in the chart.Journal Tahalil, 4 October 2026

Sixty years of higher education

Every institution in the guide, placed by the year it was founded.

  1. 19601

  2. 19702

  3. 19801

  4. 20005

  5. 20108

  6. 20205

8 institutions have no published founding year.