🇱🇷 19 universities · 5 counties
Liberia's universities, county by county — from Wikidata, not the NCHE.
Liberia's public universities include the University of Liberia, founded in 1862, and Tubman University; most others are private, many church-founded, and most are in Montserrado County. This directory lists 19 from Wikidata.
Not an official list
This list comes from Wikidata, a community-maintained database (retrieved 2026-10-22) — not from the country's regulator. It may include institutions that have closed, merged or been renamed, or that have lost or never had official recognition, and it may miss others. We leave out entries Wikidata marks as dissolved or closed, but that filter is only as up to date as Wikidata. Only institutions whose name calls them a university are listed, so recognised colleges and degree-awarding institutes are missing. Being listed here is not proof of accreditation.
Before you apply, check with the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE). We found no working website for the Commission: nche.gov.lr did not resolve when we checked on 22 October 2026, so contact it, or the Ministry of Education, directly.
Universities listed
19
In Montserrado County
13
With a website on record
18
What isn't here, and why
Liberia's National Commission on Higher Education licenses and accredits institutions and has shut down unrecognised ones, but we found no list it publishes that we could republish, so this page is built from Wikidata.
This list is from Wikidata, a community-maintained source — retrieved 2026-10-22. A university missing here is a gap in that source, not a judgement about the university, and being listed here is not proof of accreditation: check with the national regulator. Public or private status is shown only where Wikidata records it (2 of 19).
All 19 universities, by county
Montserrado County (13)Nimba (2)
Montserrado County (13)
| African Methodist Episcopal UniversityMonrovia | est. 1995 | |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion UniversityMonrovia | est. 1983 | |
| Barshell University | ||
| BlueCrest University College Liberia | ||
| Carver Christian University | est. 1984 | |
| CEPRES International University | est. 2014 | |
| Cuttington UniversityMonrovia | est. 1889 | |
| Hill City University of Science & TechnologyMonrovia | ||
| Notre Dame University College of LiberiaMonrovia | ||
| Smythe University CollegeMonrovia | est. 1999 | |
| Starz University | ||
| United Methodist UniversityMonrovia | est. 1998 | |
| University of LiberiaMonrovia | Public | est. 1862 |
Nimba (2)
Grand Bassa County (1)
| Grand Bassa University | est. 2008 |
Margibi County (1)
| Margibi University | Public | est. 2012 |
Maryland County (1)
| Tubman UniversityHarper | est. 1978 |
Location not recorded (1)
| Adventist University of West Africa | est. 2003 |
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