International Balkan University – Skopje
Меѓународен балкански универзитет · Private · University · Skopje
ibu.edu.mk →Undergraduates, 2025/26
2,513
4.6% of all undergraduates in North Macedonia
First-time entrants, 2025/26
899
Graduates, 2025
311
calendar year
Women
53.9%
no part-time students
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. The English name is our tidied form; the State Statistical Office's own English label is “International Balkan University - Skopje, IBU”.
Undergraduates, 2021/22–2025/26
| 2025/26 | 2,513 |
| 2024/25 | 3,079 |
| 2023/24 | 2,900 |
| 2022/23 | 4,054 |
| 2021/22 | 2,246 |
By year of study, 2025/26
| I year | 900 |
| II year | 700 |
| III year | 474 |
| IV year | 397 |
| V year | 42 |
First-time entrants
| 2024/25 | 1,809 (49.4% women) |
| 2025/26 | 899 (56.3% women) |
“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, 2016–2025
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85 | 78 | 126 | 129 | 173 | 137 | 219 | 131 | 168 | 311 |
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.
Faculties — 8 with students in 2025/26
Undergraduates per faculty, largest first in 2025/26. Faculties with no students in a year show “—”; those with none in any of these years are left out. Names are the State Statistical Office's, with the university's abbreviation removed.
| Faculty | 2025/26 | Women | First year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Dental MedicineФакултет за дентална медицина | 668 | 50.9% | 142 |
| Faculty of EngineeringФакултет за инженерство | 662 | 34.9% | 275 |
| Faculty of LawФакултет за правни науки | 285 | 49.8% | 33 |
| Faculty of Art and DesignФакултет за уметност и дизајн | 232 | 71.6% | 96 |
| Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesФакултет за хуманистички и општествени науки | 190 | 83.2% | 95 |
| Higher medical schoolВисока медицинска школа | 183 | 83.6% | 96 |
| Faculty of Economics and Administrative SciencesФакултет за економски и административни науки | 159 | 45.3% | 84 |
| Faculty of Educational SciencesФакултет за образовни науки | 134 | 69.4% | 79 |
| Faculty of Communication and Public RelationsФакултет за комуникации и односи со јавноста | — | — | — |
| Faculty of LiteratureФакултет за книжевност | — | — | — |
What it costs
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.
Other private institutions in North Macedonia: South East European University – Tetovo, International Slavic University “G. R. Derzhavin” – Sveti Nikole, University of Skopje, University American College Skopje, Vision International University – Gostivar, AUE-FON University – Skopje, European University – Skopje, Business Academy Smilevski – Skopje, MIT University – Management and Information Technologies, Skopje, Brainster Next College – Skopje, Faculty of Islamic Sciences – Skopje, Euro College – Kumanovo, Europa Prima International University – Skopje, Heidelberg Faculty – Skopje
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
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