Accreditation (CONEAUPA)
Re-accredited
Authorised
1991
Year of the earliest instrument listed
Accredited degrees
4
Students
Not published
Private universities' figures are confidential
Institutionally accredited by CONEAUPA in 2012–2015 and re-accredited in 2022–2023.
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.
- Authorised to operate by
- Institutional accreditation
- Resolución No. 11 del 18 de septiembre de 2012
- Re-accreditation
- Resolución No. 07 del 7 de noviembre 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.
Accredited degrees (4)
Each accreditation period CONEAUPA lists, with the resolution and its publication date in the Gaceta Oficial. Degree names are CONEAUPA's, with our English label.
| Degree | Period | Resolution | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| PsicologíaPsychology | 2017–2023 | Resolución No. 6 del 24 de octubre de 2016 | 19 de enero de 2017 |
| 2023–2029 | Resolución No. 34 del 11 de octubre de 2023 | 7 de diciembre de 2023 | |
| OdontologíaDentistry | 2017–2023 | Resolución No. 9 del 21 de noviembre de 2016 | 19 de enero de 2017 |
| 2023–2029 | Resolución No. 36 del 13 de diciembre de 2023 | 19 de diciembre de 2023 | |
| Ingeniería BiomédicaBiomedical engineering | 2024–2030 | Resolución No. 04 del 11 de abril de 2024 | 23 de abril de 2024 |
| Tecnología MédicaMedical technology | 2024–2029 | Resolución No. 010 de 29 de mayo de 2024 | 6 de junio de 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.
Other private universities in Panama: ADEN, Columbus University, ISTHMUS, ISAE, QLU, UNADP, UAM, USMA, UCP, UDES, GANEXA, UDI, UIP, ULACEX, UMECIT, OTEIMA, Universidad Unidos, Or University, CARIBE, UEA, UNICYT, UNESCA, UNHIPA*, UniHosanna*, UNIBERO*, UNIEDPA*, HIU*, UNAES*, UCYT*, UDELLPA*, UINL*, UPI* (* not accredited)
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.
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