🇲🇰 22 institutions · 55,036 students · 142 faculties
North Macedonia's 22 higher-education institutions — 40.9% of students are at one university.
How many undergraduates study at each institution and each faculty, how that has changed since 2021/22, how many started this year and how many graduated — from the State Statistical Office.
Undergraduates, 2025/26
55,036
At the 6 public universities
77.8%
Citizens of other countries
8.3%
4,591 students, whole country
Women
59.9%
What it costs, and what isn't here
Fees are not part of the statistics. Public universities set their own: Ss. Cyril and Methodius University's call for foreign students in August 2025 listed €2,000–€5,000 for its English-taught programmes (€5,000 for general and dental medicine) without saying whether that is per year. Private institutions set their own tuition, which is not published as data.
No entry scores, fees or graduate outcomes are published per institution, so this is a directory, not a matcher.
All 22 institutions
Figures are for first-cycle (undergraduate) study only — master's and doctoral students are counted in other tables. Students are counted at each institution and faculty where they are enrolled in the academic year. 16 are universities; the rest are higher professional schools and independent faculties (our grouping, read from their names). 14,995 students started a first year for the first time in 2025/26, and 7,612 graduated in 2025.
Public universities (6)
42,829 students in 2025/26. Public or private is our label; together these reproduce the State Statistical Office's public total every year.
| Institution | Students, 2025/26 | First-time entrants, 2025/26 | Graduates, 2025 | Faculties with students |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in SkopjeУниверзитет „Св. Кирил и Методиј“ - Скопје · University · Skopje | 22,537 | 5,053 | 2,707 | 24 |
| University of TetovoУниверзитет Тетово · University · Tetovo | 7,978 | 2,706 | 1,083 | 13 |
| Goce Delchev University – ShtipУниверзитет „Гоце Делчев“ - Штип · University · Shtip | 6,166 | 1,448 | 737 | 16 |
| St. Kliment Ohridski University – BitolaУниверзитет „Св. Климент Охридски“ - Битола · University · Bitola | 3,558 | 1,140 | 470 | 11 |
| Mother Teresa University – SkopjeУниверзитет „Мајка Тереза“ - Скопје · University · Skopje | 2,298 | 972 | 198 | 8 |
| University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” – OhridУниверзитет „Св. Апостол Павле“ - Охрид · University · Ohrid | 292 | 85 | 42 | 5 |
Private institutions (16)
12,207 students in 2025/26.
| Institution | Students, 2025/26 | First-time entrants, 2025/26 | Graduates, 2025 | Faculties with students |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South East European University – TetovoЈИЕ Универзитет - Тетово · University · Tetovo | 2,849 | 853 | 400 | 7 |
| International Balkan University – SkopjeМеѓународен балкански универзитет · University · Skopje | 2,513 | 899 | 311 | 8 |
| International Slavic University “G. R. Derzhavin” – Sveti NikoleМеѓународен славјански универзитет · University · Sveti Nikole | 1,596 | 520 | 342 | 4 |
| University of SkopjeУниверзитет Скопје · University · Skopje | 1,001 | 197 | 517 | 4 |
| University American College SkopjeУниверзитет Американ Колеџ · University · Skopje | 948 | 273 | 252 | 5 |
| Vision International University – GostivarМеѓународен универзитет „Визион“ · University · Gostivar | 916 | 166 | 89 | 4 |
| AUE-FON University – SkopjeАУЕ - ФОН Универзитет · University · Skopje | 532 | 159 | 118 | 5 |
| European University – SkopjeЕвропски универзитет - Скопје · University · Skopje | 428 | 68 | 100 | 5 |
| Business Academy Smilevski – SkopjeБизнис академија Смилевски, БАС · Higher professional school · Skopje | 413 | 163 | 106 | — |
| MIT University – Management and Information Technologies, SkopjeМИТ Универзитет · University · Skopje | 251 | 80 | 28 | 7 |
| Brainster Next College – SkopjeПВОУ Бреинстер некст - Скопје · Higher professional school · Skopje | 241 | 83 | 4 | — |
| Faculty of Islamic Sciences – SkopjeФакултет за исламски науки - Скопје · Independent faculty · Skopje | 222 | 38 | 32 | — |
| Euro College – KumanovoПВПУ “Еуро Колеџ”-Куманово · Higher professional school · Kumanovo | 160 | 55 | 42 | — |
| Europa Prima International University – SkopjeИнтернациионален универзитет Еуропа Прима - ИУЕП · University · Skopje | 111 | 18 | 34 | 3 |
| Heidelberg Faculty – Skopje„ХАЈДЕЛБЕРГ“ Факултет во Скопје · Higher professional school · Skopje | 26 | 19 | — | — |
| Faculty of Business Economics – SkopjeФакултет за бизнис економија - Скопје · Independent faculty · SkopjeNo first-cycle students recorded for 2025/26. | — | — | — | — |
“First-time entrants” are students enrolling in the first year for the first time; “first-year students” also include those repeating the first year. Graduates are counted by calendar year, not academic year. A few small units are listed separately in the graduates table (an MIT college and a UACS school, 1–5 graduates in some years) and are not added to their university here.
Undergraduates in North Macedonia, 2021/22–2025/26
What undergraduates study, 2025/26
Broad fields of study for the whole country — not published per institution.
- Health and welfare14,088 (25.6%)
- Business, administration and law11,016 (20.0%)
- Information and communication technologies (ICT)8,998 (16.3%)
- Engineering, manufacturing and construction5,301 (9.6%)
- Arts and humanities4,855 (8.8%)
- Social sciences, journalism and information4,156 (7.6%)
- Education2,636 (4.8%)
- Services1,800 (3.3%)
- Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics1,464 (2.7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary722 (1.3%)
Citizens of other countries are published for the country as a whole, not per institution. Citizenship is not the same as having come from abroad to study.
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Source: State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia (Државен завод за статистика), MakStat database (https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/), tables 100 (enrolled students in the first cycle), 250 (first-time first-year students), 195 (graduates) and 175 (citizenship and field of study), read 22 October 2026. Changes by CollegeMatcher: sums, shares and the selection of years are our own calculations, not the State Statistical Office's; English names are tidied by us; public/private status, the type of institution, cities and websites are added by us. The State Statistical Office states no licence for these tables; they are used as facts. MakStat — Higher education