List of universities and colleges in Mauritania

This is a list of colleges and universities of Mauritania.

In chronological order of foundation:

• National School for Administration - (Ecole Nationale d’Administration, ENA) est 1966, which became the School for Technical Sciences - (Faculté des Sciences Techniques, FST) in 1995
• Mauritanian Institute for Scientific Research - (Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, IMRS) est 1974
• Advanced Institute for Islamic Studies and Research - (Institut Supérieur d’Etudes et de Recherche Islamiques, ISERI) 1979
• Institute for Arab and Islamic Sciences 1979
• Advanced Center for Technical Education - (Centre Supérieur d’Enseignement Technique, CSET) 1980
• Nouakchott University (NU) - (Université de Nouakchott) 1981
  • School of Law and Economics
  • School of Letters and Humanities
• Advanced Scientific Institute - (Institut Supérieur Scientifique, ISS) 1986
• National Institute for Special Medical Studies 1997

• International Network for Higher Education in Africa::Mauritania country profile

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)