List of universities in Nicaragua

[1] This body is responsible for strategic planning for higher education in Nicaragua, and it is also the organization that provide accreditation to other universities.

[1] The major focus of these private universities are on business, computers and law, but together they span most areas of academic study.

[5] Admission to higher education is on the basis of the Bachillerato, the leading secondary school qualification.

The Licenciado (or Ingenierio in the case of engineering programs), is the main undergraduate degree and a four or five-year course of study.

[2] Institutions of higher learning also offer two or three year courses in technical and vocational education.

Mural in memory of the massacre of four students of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua-León on July 23, 1959 by Somoza ’s National Guard .