Nicaragua's universities, department by department — from Wikidata, not the CNU.

Not an official list

This list comes from Wikidata, a community-maintained database (retrieved 2026-10-23) — 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 Consejo Nacional de Universidades (CNU). We found no working website for the Council (cnu.edu.ni did not resolve when we checked on 23 October 2026), so check with the Council directly; the official gazette, La Gaceta (lagaceta.gob.ni), publishes the decrees that grant and cancel a university's legal status.

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua reports that from December 2021 the legal status of 38 higher-education institutions was revoked, closing almost all private universities in the country. Wikidata does not record most of these closures; we left out the three named in the official gazette and UN documents we could read, but this list may still name others. A/HRC/55/27, 15 March 2024, paras. 53–54.