List of colleges and universities in Mauritania

This is a list of colleges and universities of Mauritania.

Colleges and universities

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

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States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)