Université du Burundi

UB · Public · Seat: Bujumbura Mairie · Mukaza · authorised 1977

Students, 2025/26

13,596

20.2% of all students in Burundi

Women

40.0%

5,441 students

In professional programmes

0.0%

0 professional · 13,596 academic

Foreign students, 2025/26

116 (0.9%)

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.

The university's total and the rows counted in it leave out the doctoral school, which the programme table lists separately. One row (Faculté des Sciences Politiques et Juridiques) is printed with a total its women and men don't add up to; that is why the counted rows come to 13,636 rather than 13,596.

Programmes and students, 2025/26

29 programme listings, as UB reported them to the ministry.

Bachelor's (Baccalauréat)	Students	Women
Faculté d’Agronomie et de Bio-Ingénierie	496	34.7%
Faculté des Langues et Sciences Humaines	1,419	40.4%
Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion	1,211	57.9%
Faculté des Sciences de l’Ingénieur	387	21.4%
Faculté des Sciences Politiques et Juridiques	662	—
Institut d’Administration et de Cartographie Foncière	366	38.3%
Institut d’Education Physique et Sport	164	24.4%
Institut de Pédagogie Appliquée	1,607	32.1%
Institut Supérieure de Commerce	1,270	59.5%
Institut Supérieur Formation Agricole	741	42.0%
Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées	1,585	29.1%
Institut de Statistique Appliqué	295	26.8%
Psychologie et Sciences de l’Education	714	47.9%
Sciences	670	38.1%
Institut des Technologies Numériques	117	25.6%
Médecine	499	31.9%

Master's	Students	Women
Faculté d’Agronomie et de Bio-Ingénierie	62	12.9%
Faculté des Langues et Sciences Humaines	187	20.3%
Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion	107	29.0%
Faculté des Sciences Politiques et Juridiques	152	71.7%
Institut d’Education Physique et Sport	23	13.0%
Institut de Pédagogie Appliquée	227	21.1%
Institut Supérieure de Commerce	287	38.7%
Institut de Statistique Appliqué	74	14.9%
Médecine	152	19.7%
Psychologie et Sciences de l’Education	24	25.0%
Sciences	138	17.4%

Doctoral school (not in the university's total)	Students	Women
Sciences Humaines et Sociales	115	9.6%
Sciences Naturelles et Vie	64	6.3%

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: 116

Congolese (DR Congo)42
Rwandan6
Tanzanian1
Kenyan6
Other nationalities62

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	13,596	5,441
2024/25	16,412	5,099
2023/24	15,506	4,443
2022/23	15,654	4,288
2021/22	15,800	4,309

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: École Normale Supérieure, Institut National de Santé Publique, Institut Supérieur de Police, Institut Supérieur des Cadres Militaires

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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