List of universities in Greece

A listing of Institutions of Higher (or Tertiary) education in Greece.

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Universities and Polytechnics

(Greek: Πανεπιστήμια και Πολυτεχνεία)

All the Higher Tertiary state-accredited universities in Greece are public. The duration of the undergraduate degree programs for most disciplines is 4 years (full time). Programs in engineering, dentistry, pharmacology, agronomics, forestry, along with some programs in fine arts, have a duration of 5 years (240E.C.T.S - 300E.C.T.S ISCED 5A). Medicine is the only discipline with a duration of studies of 6 years.

  1. Agricultural University of Athens
  2. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (campuses: Thessaloniki, Veria, Serres)
  3. Athens School of Fine Arts
  4. Athens University of Economics and Business
  5. Democritus University of Thrace (campuses: Komotini, Xanthi, Alexandroupoli, Orestiada)
  6. Harokopio University (campus: Athens)
  7. Hellenic Open University
  8. International Hellenic University
  9. Ionian University
  10. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  11. National Technical University of Athens
  12. Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (campus: Athens)
  13. Technical University of Crete
  14. University of the Aegean (campuses: Mytilene, Chios, Karlovasi, Rhodes, Ermoupoli)
  15. University of Central Greece (campuses: Lamia, Livadeia)
  16. University of Crete (campuses: Heraklio, Rethymno)
  17. University of Ioannina (campuses: Ioannina, Agrinio)
  18. University of Macedonia (campuses: Thessaloniki, Edessa, Naoussa)
  19. University of Patras
  20. University of Peloponnese (campuses: Tripoli, Korinthos, Kalamata, Nafplio, Sparti)
  21. University of Piraeus
  22. University of Thessaly (campuses: Larissa, Volos, Karditsa, Trikala)
  23. University of Western Greece (announced to replace the Agrinion campus of the University of Ioannina)
  24. University of Western Macedonia (campuses: Florina, Kozani)

Technological Educational Institutes

(Greek: Α.T.E.I. - Ανώτατα Τεχνολογικά Εκπαιδευτικά Ιδρύματα)

All the Higher Tertiary state-accredited Technological Educational Institutes in Greece are public. Technological Educational Institutes were initially established in 1983. They currently offer a 4-years (full time) undergraduate degree programs equivalent to Honours Bachelor's Degree (240E.C.T.S ISCED 5A) and since 2008 they are also allowed to run on their own postgraduate programs that lead to a Master's Degree.

  1. Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki (campuses: Sindos, Katerini, Kilkis, Nea Moudania)
  2. Higer School of Pedagogical and Technological Education
  3. TEI of Athens
  4. TEI of Chalkida (campuses: Chalkida, Thiva)
  5. TEI of Crete (campuses: Heraklio, Chania, Rethymno, Agios Nikolaos, Ierapetra, Sitia)
  6. TEI of Epirus (campuses: Arta, Ioannina, Preveza, Igoumenitsa)
  7. TEI of the Ionian Islands (campuses: Lefkada, Argostoli, Lixouri, Zakynthos)
  8. TEI of Kalamata (campuses: Kalamata, Sparti)
  9. TEI of Kavala (campuses: Kavala, Drama, Didymoteicho)
  10. TEI of Lamia (campuses: Lamia, Amfissa, Karpenisi)
  11. TEI of Larissa (campuses: Larissa, Karditsa, Trikala)
  12. TEI of Messolonghi (campuses: Missolonghi, Nafpaktos)
  13. TEI of Patras (campuses: Patras, Aigio, Pyrgos, Amaliada)
  14. TEI of Piraeus
  15. TEI of Serres
  16. TEI of Western Macedonia (campuses: Kozani, Florina, Kastoria, Grevena and Ptolemaida)

Academies and schools

The following academies offer higher education with 4 years of studies and their graduates are equivalent to the graduates of universities. However, they operate under different terms from the universities and among other differences they have is that they are not allowed to run graduate programs on their own.

The following schools offer higher education with 4 years of studies and their graduates are equivalent to the graduates of Technological Educational Institutes.

The following schools offer higher education of up to 2 years of studies

Colleges

According to the Constitution of Greece, "education at university level shall be provided exclusively by institutions which are fully self-governed public law legal persons".[1] This prohibits private institutions for post-secondary education, colloquially known as colleges, from operating as independent universities in Greece. However, it does not prohibit colleges from collaborating with foreign universities to offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study in Greece.[2][3]

The vast majority of colleges are offering programmes of study under franchise or validation agreements with universities established in other European Union countries, primarily in the UK, leading to degrees which are awarded directly by those universities. The monitoring of those agreements as well as of additional provisions for the operation of colleges is carried out by the Ministry of Education (Law 3696/2008, 3848/2010), but also by the respective educational authorities of the countries in which the universities are based (e.g. QAA, BAC and NARIC for the UK).

Effective May 2010, with the integration into Greek law of EC Directive 2005/36[4] on the mutual recognition of qualifications,[5] holders of academic degrees by universities in the European Union, including those obtained through studies at a college in Greece, have their professional rights fully recognised.

International rankings

According to the THE–QS World University Rankings:

Institution 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών) NR NR NR NR 200 177

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Constitution of Greece". http://www.hri.org/docs/syntagma/artcl25.html#A16. Retrieved 2010-07-22. 
  2. ^ "Law 3696/2008". http://stat-athens.aueb.gr/~jpan/nomos-3696-FEK177-2008.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-22. 
  3. ^ "Law 3848/2010". http://www.ypepth.gr/docs/nomosxedio_paideia_100427.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-22. 
  4. ^ "EC Directive 2005/36". http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:255:0022:0142:en:PDF. Retrieved 2010-07-22. 
  5. ^ "Presidential Decree 38/2010". http://stat-athens.aueb.gr/~jpan/FEK78A-PD38-25ma10.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-22. 

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