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