Universidad Central del Este
UCE · University · Private
In English: Central University of the East (our translation)
Students, 2024
11,909
2.3% of all students in the country
Women
72.0%
8,570 students
New entrants, 2024
3,204
Graduates, 2024
1,508
Teaching staff
1,253
headcount
US students at this institution can use US federal student loans — see Caribbean medical schools for its Direct Loan figures (Federal School Code G10977).
Students by level, 2024
- Higher technical (técnico superior)237 · 2.0%
- Undergraduate degree (grado)9,253 · 77.7%
- Specialisation (especialidad)144 · 1.2%
- Master's (maestría)2,275 · 19.1%
Técnico superior is a short-cycle higher technical qualification; grado is a first degree (a licenciatura, or a professional degree such as medicine); especialidad, maestría and doctorado are postgraduate.
Born abroad, 2024: 143 (1.2%)
143 students (1.2%) were born outside the Dominican Republic.
- United States49
- Puerto Rico28
- Venezuela21
- Haiti10
- Colombia6
- Cuba5
- Italy5
- Spain5
- Mexico3
- Antigua and Barbuda2
- Argentina2
- United Kingdom2
- Anguilla1
- British Virgin Islands1
- Ecuador1
- Saint Kitts and Nevis1
- Ukraine1
“Born abroad” counts students whose country of birth, as the institutions reported it to MESCyT, is not the Dominican Republic. It is not nationality: a student born in the United States may be a Dominican citizen, and a foreign national born in the Dominican Republic is not counted. Students whose country of birth is not stated are counted separately.
Students and graduates, 2010–2024
| Year | Students | Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11,909 | 1,508 |
| 2023 | 10,725 | 1,123 |
| 2022 | 9,877 | 1,826 |
| 2021 | 9,460 | 1,721 |
| 2020 | 9,137 | 832 |
| 2019 | 8,106 | 1,667 |
| 2018 | 9,598 | 1,678 |
| 2017 | 8,778 | 1,680 |
| 2016 | 6,536 | 1,542 |
| 2015 | 6,498 | 1,347 |
| 2014 | 6,404 | 1,226 |
| 2013 | 6,423 | 1,238 |
| 2012 | 8,405 | 1,291 |
| 2011 | 7,730 | 548 |
| 2010 | 9,468 | 1,483 |
The 2010–2024 figures are MESCyT's historical tables, as printed: a dash means the table gives no figure that year — the institution had not opened, had closed, reported nothing or, for graduates, had none. Graduates in 2011 total less than half of 2010 or 2012 in the source; they are shown as published.
What it costs
Tuition is not in MESCyT's yearbook and is not published as open data, for public or private institutions. Ask each institution for its current fees, including any rate for students from abroad.
Teaching staff are a headcount of everyone who taught, full-time or part-time — not full-time equivalents. For five institutions MESCyT used their most recent return because none came in for 2024: UTESUR (2022), UNAD, UNICDA, ISEND and UNIROMANA (2023). Public or private is the sector MESCyT gives each institution's graduates; for the institutions with no 2024 graduates it is the only assignment that reproduces MESCyT's own public and private enrolment totals at every level.
Other universities in the Dominican Republic: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Universidad Abierta para Adultos, Universidad Adventista Dominicana, Universidad Agroforestal Fernando Arturo de Meriño, Universidad APEC, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Universidad Católica del Cibao, Universidad Católica del Este, Universidad Católica Nordestana, Universidad Católica Santo Domingo, Universidad Católica Tecnológica de Barahona, Universidad de La Romana, Universidad de la Tercera Edad, Universidad del Caribe, Universidad Dominicana Organización y Método, Universidad Dominicana San Valero, Universidad Domínico Americano, Universidad Eugenio María de Hostos, Universidad Experimental Félix Adam, Universidad Federico Henríquez y Carvajal, Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad INCE, Universidad ISA, Universidad Nacional Evangélica, Universidad Nacional para la Defensa, General Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Universidad Nacional Tecnológica, Universidad Odontológica Dominicana, Universidad Psicología Industrial Dominicana, Universidad Santo Domingo Norte, Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago, Universidad Tecnológica del Cibao Oriental, Universidad Tecnológica del Sur
Source: Ministerio de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología (MESCyT), República Dominicana, “Informe General sobre Estadísticas de Educación Superior 2024 y Resumen Histórico 2010-2024”, Parte 1 and Parte 2 (the April 2026 update), mescyt.gob.do, downloaded 2026-10-20. The figures were re-keyed and arranged by CollegeMatcher: shares, the “born abroad” counts and national country totals, English names of countries and levels, and the public or private label of the institutions with no 2024 graduates are our work; institution names are MESCyT's. MESCyT's site reserves all rights in its publications, so only the figures are used here, not its tables or text.