List of universities and colleges in Mauritania
# List of universities and colleges in Mauritania

This is a list of colleges and universities of Mauritania.

## Colleges and universities

In chronological order of foundation:

* National School for Administration - (Ecole Nationale d’Administration, ENA) est 1966, which became the School for Technical Sciences - (Faculté des Sciences Techniques, FST) in 1995
* Mauritanian Institute for Scientific Research - (Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, IMRS) est 1974
* Advanced Institute for Islamic Studies and Research - (Institut Supérieur d’Etudes et de Recherche Islamiques, ISERI) 1979
* Institute for Arab and Islamic Sciences 1979
* Advanced Center for Technical Education - (Centre Supérieur d’Enseignement Technique, CSET) 1980
* Nouakchott University (NU) - (Université de Nouakchott) 1981
   * School of Law and Economics
   * School of Letters and Humanities
* Advanced Scientific Institute - (Institut Supérieur Scientifique, ISS) 1986
* National Institute for Special Medical Studies 1997
