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Study abroad

Every year the ministry offers a limited number of places in partner countries, allocated through the same orientation as national programmes. Here are the places by country, the ranks they took, and how to apply.

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Orientation ⁦2026-2027⁩

Bac holders placed abroad
70
Licence graduates placed in a master’s abroad
553
First-year programmes abroad
29
Countries that took students
5

How to get a place abroad

  1. July

    Pass the Bac, ideally in the first session

    Places abroad are awarded by your national rank within your Bac series. Selective programmes, at home and abroad, are filled right after the first-session results.

  2. August

    Rank programmes abroad among your choices

    Programmes abroad are listed on etudiants-mesrs.app next to national ones, and you rank them in the same list. In 2026 the platform offered 160 programmes, 29 of them abroad.

  3. Mid-August

    Get your placement

    Places go by rank, order of choice and capacity. In 2026, first-session placements were announced on 19 August, and the platform reopened on 23 August for second-session candidates.

  4. After placement

    Send your international application

    On the platform's Candidature internationale page, choose the country, enter your NNI and your profile, upload the requested documents as PDF files and submit. The file is locked once it is sent.

  5. Before you leave

    Complete the host country's steps

    The host country handles enrolment and its own grant. In Morocco, for example, files reach universities only through the AMCI, and you need an enrolment authorisation before registering. Ask the host country's embassy in Nouakchott about the student visa.

Places by country

Students placed abroad by the ministry orientation, per academic year.

CountryLicenceMaster
2025-262026-272025-262026-27
Morocco5544190176
Algeria–1300197
Tunisia383150180
Türkiye–18––
Senegal124––
Egypt––––

Destination by destination

Ranks are national ranks within each Bac series: the smaller the number, the better the result. They are past results, and thresholds change every year with demand and capacity.

Morocco

Licence · 44Master · 1762026-2027

Morocco takes the widest range of first-year students, in engineering, medicine, pharmacy, business and agronomy, and offers master's places to graduates of many national licences.

First-year programmePlacedLast rank admitted, by Bac series
Engineering and technology20
  • SN654
General medicine11
  • SN62
  • M11
Business and management8
  • SN768
  • M64
Pharmacy4
  • SN384
  • M125
Agronomy and veterinary science1
  • SN684

176 master’s places for graduates of 98 licences at 22 institutions.

Scholarships and procedure

AMCI grants

Morocco's international cooperation agency, under the foreign ministry, gives grants and reception support to foreign students. Applications only go through the diplomatic channel: a file the AMCI has not forwarded is not considered.

Algeria

Licence · 1Master · 1972026-2027

Algeria offers the most master's places. Its first-year places are in health only (medicine, dentistry and pharmacy), and few were filled in 2026-2027.

First-year programmePlacedLast rank admitted, by Bac series
Dentistry1
  • SN23

197 master’s places for graduates of 103 licences at 22 institutions.

Scholarships and procedure

Algerian government grants

Speaking in Nouakchott in December 2024, President Tebboune restated Algeria's offer of 2,000 higher-education grants and 500 vocational-training grants a year to African students.

Tunisia

Licence · 3Master · 1802026-2027

Tunisia mainly takes master's students. Its first-year places are in medicine; in 2025-2026 it also took students into a general licence track at Tunisian universities.

First-year programmePlacedLast rank admitted, by Bac series
General medicine3
  • SN19

180 master’s places for graduates of 98 licences at 21 institutions.

Scholarships and procedure

Tunisian cooperation grants

A grant for a foreign student needs the prior approval of the international cooperation department of Tunisia's higher education ministry. The file includes a copy of the passport and proof of enrolment at a public institution.

Türkiye

Licence · 182026-2027

Türkiye is the newest destination. It first appears in the 2026-2027 orientation, with one to three first-year places in each of about fifteen programmes, from medicine to artificial intelligence and space engineering.

First-year programmePlacedLast rank admitted, by Bac series
General medicine3
  • SN123
  • M24
Artificial intelligence2
  • M157
International relations2
  • LM3
  • LO10
Medical biology1
  • SN608
Cybersecurity1
  • M92
Drone engineering1
  • M221
Renewable energy1
  • SN316
Agricultural engineering1
  • SN447
Petroleum and gas engineering1
  • SN1
Dentistry1
  • SN117
Mechatronics1
  • SN343
Pharmacy1
  • SN280
Psychology1
  • LM168
Space engineering1
  • M305

No master’s places in ⁦2026-2027⁩.

Scholarships and procedure

Türkiye Scholarships (Türkiye Bursları)

Open to all nationalities, with a free online application. It covers university placement, a monthly stipend, accommodation, health insurance, a flight and a Turkish language course. The general call runs from 10 January to 20 February, and results come out in early August.

YÖK–MESRS agreement (June 2026)

Signed on 27 June 2026, the agreement plans annual scholarship quotas for Mauritanian students and researchers. The number of places has not been published.

Senegal

Licence · 42026-2027

Senegal takes a few medical students at Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar. A second medicine track, at Université Iba Der Thiam in Thiès, was offered in 2026-2027 but not filled.

First-year programmePlacedLast rank admitted, by Bac series
General medicine (UCAD)4
  • SN70
  • M44

No master’s places in ⁦2026-2027⁩.

Scholarships and procedure

Ministry orientation only

These places are allocated through the national orientation. We found no separate public call for Mauritanian students.

Egypt

Egypt is listed on the ministry's international application page, but no student was placed there in the 2025-2026 or 2026-2027 orientation.

No first-year student placed in ⁦2026-2027⁩.

No master’s places in ⁦2026-2027⁩.

Scholarships and procedure

Study in Egypt

Egypt's higher education ministry offers places to Mauritanian students through its Study in Egypt initiative. In 2022 the Egyptian minister asked for their number to be increased.

Sources

Placement figures come from the ministry’s published orientation data, last fetched on 11 October 2026.