Universidad Autónoma de los Pueblos Indígenas

Legal basis and accreditation

As CONEAUPA lists them, read 20 October 2026; each links CONEAUPA's copy or the Gaceta Oficial. Each list is CONEAUPA's. Where its list of private universities and its status page write the same decree with different numbers or dates (both linking the same Gaceta Oficial copy), both readings are shown — the Gazette copy is the authority.

Created by

Ley N° 288 de 10 de marzo de 2022Also written by CONEAUPA as “Ley No. 288 del 10 de mayo de 2022”

CONEAUPA, Panama's national council for university evaluation and accreditation, accredits universities as institutions and, separately, individual degrees. CONEAUPA notes that under Executive Decree 539 of 2018 (art. 166) an institutional or degree accreditation that has expired and is awaiting renewal stays in force until the re-accreditation process is complete. Being on CONEAUPA's lists means a university holds a law, decree or resolution authorising it; accreditation is a separate evaluation, and an accredited university's degrees are not each accredited individually.

Students and graduates, 2023–2024

Enrolment is INEC's count for the first semester of the 2024 academic year at the public universities; 2024 figures are provisional. INEC publishes private universities only as one combined figure — their individual data are confidential under Law 10 of 22 January 2009 — so no private university's enrolment is shown. “Postgraduate” is INEC's posgrado: special courses and specialisations, separate from master's and doctorates. A licenciatura is Panama's first university degree.

Other public universities in Panama: UNACHI, UP, UDELAS, UMIP, UTP

Sources: Consejo Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación Universitaria de Panamá (CONEAUPA), coneaupa.edu.pa — lists of official, private, closed, non-accredited and in-creation universities, accreditation status, and accredited and re-accredited degrees; Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC), Contraloría General de la República de Panamá, “Matrícula y graduados de educación universitaria en la República: años 2023-24” (published 25 November 2025; 2024 figures provisional). Facts re-stated by CollegeMatcher under Ley 64 de 2012, art. 13, which does not protect official administrative texts or simple facts and data; neither body's text or tables are reproduced. Names are CONEAUPA's; English labels, groupings, shares and sums are CollegeMatcher's.