Students, 2025/26
2,611
3.9% of all students in Burundi
Women
30.8%
803 students
In professional programmes
0.0%
0 professional · 2,611 academic
Foreign students, 2025/26
2 (0.1%)
All figures are for the 2025/26 academic year, from the ministry's Recensement académique, mai 2026 (the yearbook is dated August 2026). “Professional” is what the yearbook calls enseignement supérieur professionnel — career-oriented programmes; “academic” is enseignement académique, the Baccalauréat (3 years) – Master (2) – Doctorat (3) system. The split is as each institution reported it.
Programmes and students, 2025/26
3 programme listings, as ENS reported them to the ministry.
| Programme (as reported) | Students | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Département des Sciences Naturelles | 555 | 43.6% |
| Département des Langues et Sciences Humaines | 818 | 30.7% |
| Département des Sciences Appliquées | 1,238 | 25.0% |
Programmes (filières) are listed as each institution reported them to the ministry, in French or English, with marks such as “(Bac)”, “(Inst)” or “(Master)” as printed. Campuses are not shown, so a programme taught at several campuses appears once for each. The Université du Burundi and the École Normale Supérieure report by faculty, institute or department. Where a programme's printed women and men don't add up to its printed total (one row), the total is shown and the share of women is left blank.
Foreign students, 2025/26: 2
- Congolese (DR Congo)2
Foreign students are counted by nationality as each institution or campus reported it. The yearbook's national total is 11,852; its campus rows add up to 11,854. An institution with no row in that table has no foreign students recorded. Nationalities other than Congolese, Rwandan, Tanzanian and Kenyan are grouped as “other”.
Students, 2021/22–2025/26
| Year | Students | Women |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 2,611 | 803 |
| 2024/25 | 2,339 | 671 |
| 2023/24 | 2,479 | 747 |
| 2022/23 | 2,282 | 540 |
| 2021/22 | 2,229 | 515 |
Earlier years are from the yearbook's historical table, whose institution rows add up to its own national totals in every year. Those totals differ from the yearbook's summary table for earlier years (2021/22: 66,338 against 65,326; 2022/23: 66,868 against 67,373; 2023/24: 65,861 against 66,150; 2024/25: 73,247 against 73,343). A dash means the table gives no figure for that year.
What it costs, and how to get in
Tuition fees are not in the ministry's yearbook and are not published as open data, for public or private institutions. Ask each institution for its current fees, including any rate for students from abroad.
Entry to higher education requires the Diplôme d'État (the national secondary-school examination); applicants educated abroad need a qualification recognised as equivalent.
The seat (province and commune) and the year of authorisation are from the list of institutions in the ministry's 2022/23 yearbook — the 2025/26 yearbook has no such list — so institutions not on it show none. “Bujumbura Mairie” is the city of Bujumbura. Campuses may be elsewhere.
Other public institutions in Burundi: Institut National de Santé Publique, Institut Supérieur de Police, Institut Supérieur des Cadres Militaires, Université du Burundi
Source: Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche Scientifique (Burundi), Bureau de la Planification et des Statistiques de l'Éducation, “Annuaire des statistiques de l'éducation 2025-2026, Tome 3 : statistiques de l'enseignement supérieur” (August 2026), from its Recensement académique, mai 2026; https://mesrs.gov.bi/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/TOME-3_Annuaire_2025-2026.pdf, read on 2026-10-20. Seats and years of authorisation: the ministry's 2022-2023 yearbook (Tome 3), list of institutions. The figures were re-keyed and arranged by CollegeMatcher: shares, sums over nationalities, English labels and the notes on figures that disagree are our work; institution and programme names are the yearbook's. Only the figures are used here, not the yearbook's tables or text. Open the yearbook (PDF)
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