🇲🇼 19 universities · 3 regions
Malawi's universities — from Wikidata, not the NCHE.
Malawi's public and private universities are registered and accredited by the National Council for Higher Education. This directory lists the 19 universities Wikidata records, by region.
Not an official list
This list comes from Wikidata, a community-maintained database (retrieved 2026-11-13) — 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 Council for Higher Education (NCHE). (Links checked on 13 November 2026.)
Universities listed
19
In Central Region
11
With a website on record
18
What isn't here, and why
Malawi's National Council for Higher Education registers and accredits universities, 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 2026-11-13. 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 (3 of 19).
All 19 universities, by region
Central Region (11)Southern Region (6)
Central Region (11)
| Daeyang UniversityLilongwe | est. 2010 | |
| Exploits UniversityLilongwe District | est. 2010 | |
| Jubilee UniversityLilongwe | est. 2016 | |
| Lake Malawi Anglican UniversityLilongwe District | est. 2014 | |
| Malawi Adventist UniversityNtcheu | est. 1969 | |
| Malawi Assemblies of God UniversityLilongwe | est. 2013 | |
| Nkhoma UniversityLilongwe | est. 2011 | |
| Pentecostal Life UniversityLilongwe | est. 2013 | |
| ShareWorld Open University MalawiLilongwe | ||
| UNICAF UniversityLilongwe | est. 2012 | |
| University of LilongweLilongwe |
Southern Region (6)
| Blantyre International UniversityBlantyre | est. 2007 | |
| Catholic University of MalawiBlantyre | est. 2004 | |
| Central Christian UniversityBlantyre | Private | est. 2023 |
| Malawi University of Science and TechnologyBlantyre | est. 2012 | |
| University of Blantyre SynodBlantyre | Private | est. 2014 |
| University of MalawiZomba | est. 1964 |
Northern Region (1)
| Mzuzu UniversityMzuzu | Public | est. 1997 |
Location not recorded (1)
| Lonjezo University |
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