Peru's universities — which hold a licence, and which were refused one.

The 96 licensed universities, by department

AmazonasÁncashApurímacArequipaAyacuchoCajamarcaCallaoCuscoHuancavelicaHuánucoIcaJunínLa LibertadLambayequeLimaLoretoMadre de DiosMoqueguaPascoPiuraPunoSan MartínTacnaTumbesUcayali

Applicants and admitted at public universities, 2024

Across the 49 public universities in the table, 430,075 applied and 67,885 were admitted in 2024; the 48 private universities in the companion table had 490,963 applicants and admitted 380,252. Listed by number of applicants, largest first — this is not a ranking of how hard each is to enter. Private universities' figures are on their own pages.

Applicants, admitted and enrolled are for 2024, as each university reported them to SUNEDU's university information system by March 2025. The source counts “persons” in its public-university table and “students” in its private-university one, and does not say whether someone who applied in two admission rounds is counted twice. The figures are not split by admission route, so they take in the general entrance exam, the university's own pre-university centre and the extraordinary routes (top school leavers, transfers, graduates and others). “Enrolled” is all students enrolled, not just the new intake; the table does not say whether postgraduates are counted.

The share of applicants admitted is admitted ÷ applicants. It says how contested places were across the whole university, not the mark you need: it is not a cut-off, and it differs widely between degrees inside one university. No share is shown where a figure is missing or there were fewer than 50 applicants.

* “n/a” is a figure the source marks as not available. No share is shown either where one is missing or where a university reported almost exactly as many applicants as admitted — which most likely means it reported only the applicants who got in.

One university publishes results by degree as open data: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos — places, applicants, admitted and scores for 36 schools, 2026-I.

Licence denied (45)

SUNEDU refused these universities a licence. As recorded on 28 August 2024. Check with SUNEDU for the current position of any one of them.

• Grupo Educativo Universidad Privada de Ica S.A.C. · Ica
• Universidad Alas Peruanas S.A. · Lima
• Universidad Andina Néstor Cáceres Velásquez · Puno
• Universidad Autónoma San Francisco S.A.C. · Arequipa
• Universidad Católica los Ángeles de Chimbote · Áncash
• Universidad Ciencias de la Salud S.A.C. · Arequipa
• Universidad Científica del Perú · Loreto
• Universidad de Ayacucho Federico Froebel S.A.C. · Ayacucho
• Universidad de Lambayeque S.A.C. · Lambayeque
• Universidad Global del Cusco S.A.C. · Cusco
• Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Asociación Civil · Lima
• Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad José Carlos Mariátegui · Moquegua
• Universidad Latinoamericana Cima S.A.C. · Tacna
• Universidad Marítima del Perú S.A.C. · Callao
• Universidad Particular de Chiclayo · Lambayeque
• Universidad Peruana Austral del Cusco S.A.C. · Cusco
• Universidad Peruana de Arte Orval S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Peruana de Ciencias e Informática S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Peruana de Integración Global S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Peruana de Investigación y Negocios S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Peruana de las Américas S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Peruana del Oriente S.A.C. · Loreto
• Universidad Peruana Santo Tomás de Aquino de Ciencia e Integración S.A.C. · Junín
• Universidad Peruana Simón Bolívar S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Politécnica Amazónica S.A.C. · Amazonas
• Universidad Privada Antonio Guillermo Urrelo S.A.C. · Cajamarca
• Universidad Privada Arzobispo Loayza S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Privada Autónoma del Sur S.A.C. · Arequipa
• Universidad Privada de la Selva Peruana S.A.C. · Loreto
• Universidad Privada de Pucallpa S.A.C. · Ucayali
• Universidad Privada de Trujillo · La Libertad
• Universidad Privada Juan Mejía Baca S.A.C. · Lambayeque
• Universidad Privada Juan Pablo II S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Privada Leonardo Da Vinci S.A.C. · La Libertad
• Universidad Privada Líder Peruana S.A.C. · Cusco
• Universidad Privada San Carlos S.A.C. · Puno
• Universidad Privada Sergio Bernales S.A. · Lima
• Universidad Privada SISE S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Privada Telesup S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad San Andrés S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad San Pedro · Áncash
• Universidad Santo Domingo de Guzmán S.A.C. · Lima
• Universidad Seminario Bíblico Andino · Lima
• Universidad Seminario Evangélico de Lima · Lima

No licence application on record (public): Universidad Autónoma Municipal de los Olivos (Lima); Universidad Nacional Tecnológica de San Juan de Lurigancho (Lima).

Source: SUNEDU (Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria), datasets “Licenciamiento Institucional” and “Programas Académicos de Universidades”, Plataforma Nacional de Datos Abiertos (datosabiertos.gob.pe), under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. Names converted from capitals and programmes grouped across sites by CollegeMatcher.

Applicants, admitted and enrolled: Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI), con datos de la Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria (SUNEDU) — tables 5.34 and 5.35 of “Perú: Brechas de Género, 2025”, reproduced with the source named as INEI requires. Women and men added together, and shares calculated, by CollegeMatcher.

San Marcos admission results: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Oficina Central de Admisión, dataset “Resultados del proceso de admisión de pregrado” (2026-I), Plataforma Nacional de Datos Abiertos, under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. Rows whose school name does not match UNMSM's school code left out by CollegeMatcher.