List of universities in Greece
Encyclopedia
A listing of Institutions of Higher
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

 (or Tertiary
Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school, university-preparatory school...

) education in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

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Universities and Polytechnics

(Greek:
Greek language
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 Πανεπιστήμια και Πολυτεχνεία)


All the Higher Tertiary state-accredited universities in Greece are public. The duration of the undergraduate degree programs for most disciplines is 4 years (full time). Programs in engineering, dentistry, pharmacology, agronomics, forestry, along with some programs in fine arts, have a duration of 5 years (240E.C.T.S - 300E.C.T.S ISCED 5A). Medicine is the only discipline with a duration of studies of 6 years.
  1. Agricultural University of Athens
    Agricultural University of Athens
    The Agricultural University of Athens is located in Athens, at the neighborhood of Votanikos.-Location:The University is located on the alluvian plain of the Kifisos river. Its address is 75 Iera Odos. It is bordered by Kavalas avenue, Spyrou Patsi Street, the bus depot of AUTO, and the FAGE factory...

  2. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest Greek university, and the largest university in the Balkans. It was named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, about 55 km east of Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia...

     (campuses: Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

    , Veria
    Veria
    Veria is a city built at the foot of Vermion Mountains in Greece. It is a commercial center of Macedonia, the capital of the prefecture of Imathia, the province of Imathia and the seat of a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church...

    , Serres
    Serres, Greece
    Sérres is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki. The Rhodope Mountains rise to the north and east of the city...

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  3. Athens School of Fine Arts
    Athens School of Fine Arts
    The Athens School of Fine Arts , is Greece's premier art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students.-History:Athens School of Fine Arts was established on 12 January 1837, known as the School for the Arts...

  4. Athens University of Economics and Business
  5. Democritus University of Thrace
    Democritus University of Thrace
    Democritus University of Thrace was established in July 1973. It is based in Komotini, Greece and has campuses in the Thracian cities of Xanthi, Alexandroupoli and Orestiada. The university accepted the first students in the academic year 1974–1975...

     (campuses: Komotini
    Komotini
    Komotini is a city in Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace and of the Rhodope regional unit. It is also the administrative center of the Rhodope-Evros super-prefecture. The city is home to the Democritus University of Thrace, founded in 1973...

    , Xanthi
    Xanthi
    Xanthi ; is a city in Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi peripheral unit of the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace.-History:...

    , Alexandroupoli
    Alexandroupoli
    Alexandroupoli , is a city of Greece and the capital of the Evros peripheral unit in Thrace. Named after King Alexander, it is an important port and commercial center of northeastern Greece.-Name:...

    , Orestiada
    Orestiada
    Orestiada is the northeasternmost and northernmost city of Greece and the second largest city of the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The population is around 25,000. Orestiada is only 2 km west of the banks of the Evros, which forms a natural border between Greece and Turkey...

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  6. Harokopio University
    Harokopio University
    Harokopio University is a public research university in Athens, Greece.It was founded in 1990 as the successor of the Harokopios Higher School of Home Economics that was established in 1929...

     (campus: Athens
    Athens
    Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

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  7. Hellenic Open University
  8. International Hellenic University
    International Hellenic University
    The International Hellenic University was established in October 2005, in accordance to . The University consists of three Schools: The School of Economics and Business Administration, the School of Humanities and the School of Science and Technology...

  9. Ionian University
    Ionian University
    The Ionian University is a university located in the city of Corfu, Greece. It was established in 1984 by the Greek government under the Prime Ministership of Andreas Papandreou, in recognition of Corfu's contribution to Education in Greece as the seat of the first University of Greece, the Ionian...

  10. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , usually referred to simply as the University of Athens, is the oldest university in Southeast Europe and has been in continuous operation since its establishment in 1837. Today, it is the second-largest institution of higher learning in Greece,...

  11. National Technical University of Athens
    National Technical University of Athens
    The National Technical University of Athens , sometimes simply known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions of Greece....

  12. Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
    Panteion University
    The Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences , usually referred to simply as the Panteion University, is a university located in Athens, Greece...

  13. Technical University of Crete
    Technical University of Crete
    The Technical University of Crete is a state university under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education and was founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete. The first students were admitted in 1984. The campus is located on a panoramic site in the peninsula of Akrotiri and covers an area of ,...

  14. University of the Aegean
    University of the Aegean
    The University of the Aegean is a state, multi-campus university located in Mytilene, Greece. The university was officially founded in 1984, although its historical roots date back to the early 1920s...

     (campuses: Mytilene
    Mytilene
    Mytilene is a town and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital of the island of Lesbos. Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is built on the...

    , Chios
    Chios (town)
    Chios is the main town and a former municipality on the island of Chios, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chios, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located on the eastern coast of the island facing the Turkish coastal town of Çeşme...

    , Karlovasi
    Karlovasi
    Karlovasi is a town and a former municipality on the island of Samos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Samos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located on the northwest side of the island. According to the 2001 census, the population...

    , Rhodes
    Rhodes, Greece
    Rhodes is the principal city and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It has a population of approximately 80,000. Rhodes has been famous...

    , Ermoupoli
    Ermoupoli
    Ermoupoli , also known by the formal older name Ermoupolis or Hermoupolis , is a town and former municipality on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Syros-Ermoupoli, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...

    )
  15. University of Central Greece
    University of Central Greece
    The University of Central Greece , is a public university located in Central Greece, which was founded by the Greek Government in April 2003 in Lamia...

     (campuses: Lamia
    Lamia (city)
    Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since antiquity, and is today the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and of the Central Greece region .-Name:...

    , Livadeia
    Livadeia
    Livadeia is a city in central Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Boeotia. Livadeia is located 130 km NW of Athens, E of Nafpaktos, ESE of Amfissa and Desfina, SE of Lamia and west of Chalkida. Livadeia is linked with GR-48 and several kilometres west of GR-3. The area around Livadeia...

    )
  16. University of Crete
    University of Crete
    The University of Crete ' is the principal higher education institution on the island of Crete, Greece.The University of Crete, is a multi-disciplinary, research- oriented institution, located in the cities of Rethymno and Heraklion...

     (campuses: Heraklio, Rethymno
    Rethymno
    Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...

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  17. University of Ioannina
    University of Ioannina
    The University of Ioannina is a university lying in the plains 5 km southwest of Ioannina, Greece. The campus is linked to the town by Greek National Road 5. It now hosts over 20,000 students in 17 faculties...

     (campuses: Ioannina
    Ioannina
    Ioannina , often called Jannena within Greece, is the largest city of Epirus, north-western Greece, with a population of 70,203 . It lies at an elevation of approximately 500 meters above sea level, on the western shore of lake Pamvotis . It is located within the Ioannina municipality, and is the...

    , Agrinio
    Agrinio
    Agrinion is the largest city and municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania peripheral unit of Greece, with 96,321 inhabitants. It is the economical center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its capital is the town of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to ancient times...

    )
  18. University of Macedonia
    University of Macedonia
    The University of Macedonia is located in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. It is the second largest university in Thessaloniki...

     (campuses: Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

    , Edessa
    Edessa, Greece
    Edessa , is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. It was also the capital of the defunct province of the same name.-Name:...

    , Naoussa)
  19. University of Patras
    University of Patras
    University of Patras is a university established in 1964 in Patras, Greece. Initially housed in the city centre, the university's campus is now located in the adjacent municipality of Rio...

  20. University of Peloponnese
    University of Peloponnese
    The University of Peloponnese is a university located in the Peloponnese, Greece. It was founded in 2002 and comprises five schools in Tripoli, Corinth, Kalamata, Nafplion, and Sparta....

     (campuses: Tripoli
    Tripoli, Greece
    Tripoli is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia and the centre of the municipality of Tripolis, pop...

    , Korinthos, Kalamata
    Kalamata
    Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...

    , Nafplio, Sparti)
  21. University of Piraeus
    University of Piraeus
    The University of Piraeus is a university located in Piraeus, Greece with a total of nine academic departments focused mainly on economics, business management and information technology. It is currently one of the leading academic institutions in the country...

  22. University of Thessaly
    University of Thessaly
    The University of Thessaly is a university in Thessaly, Greece, founded in 1984. The university is based in Volos, but operates campuses in Larissa, Trikala and Karditsa...

     (campuses: Larissa
    Larissa
    Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...

    , Volos
    Volos
    Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

    , Karditsa
    Karditsa
    Karditsa is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa peripheral unit.Inhabitation is attested from 9000 BCE. Karditsa ls linked with GR-30, the road to Karpenisi, and the road to Palamas and Larissa...

    , Trikala
    Trikala
    Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. It is the capital of the Trikala peripheral unit, and is located NW of Athens, NW, of Karditsa, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki, and W of Larissa...

    )
  23. University of Western Greece (announced to replace the Agrinion campus of the University of Ioannina)
  24. University of Western Macedonia
    University of Western Macedonia
    Τhe University of Western Macedonia is a multi-campus university in Northwestern Greece. It was founded in 2002 in Kozani. On 1 January 2004, the University of Western Macedonia absorbed four departments that had previously formed part of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.Faculty of...

     (campuses: Florina
    Florina
    Florina is a town and municipality in mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'. It is also the Metropolitan seat for the region. It lies in the central part of Florina peripheral unit, of which it is the capital. Florina belongs to the periphery of West...

    , Kozani
    Kozani
    Kozani is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani regional unit and of West Macedonia region. It is located in the western part of Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmonas river valley...

    )

Technological Educational Institutes

(Greek:
Greek language
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 Α.T.E.I. - Ανώτατα Τεχνολογικά Εκπαιδευτικά Ιδρύματα)


All the Higher Tertiary state-accredited Technological Educational Institutes in Greece are public. Technological Educational Institutes were initially established in 1983. They currently offer a 4-years (full time) undergraduate degree programs equivalent to Honours Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

 (240E.C.T.S ISCED 5A) and since 2008 they are also allowed to run on their own postgraduate programs that lead to a Master's Degree
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...

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  1. Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki
    Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki
    - Departments and faculties :The university includes 5 schools, consisting of 22 departments:* STEF : School of Technological Applications** Department of Informatics** Department of Automation** Department of Electronics...

     (campuses: Sindos
    Sindos
    Sindos is a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is home to the Alexandrio Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and the Industrial Zone of the city. The suburb is part of the municipality of Delta.In antiquity, Sindos was noted by Herodotus Sindos (Greek: Σίνδος, Latin: Sindus, South...

    , Katerini
    Katerini
    Katerini is a town in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of Pieria regional unit. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, at an altitude of 14 m. The town, which is one of the newest in Greece, has a population of 83,764...

    , Kilkis
    Kilkis
    Kilkis is an industrial city in Central Macedonia, Greece. As of 2001 there were 17,430 people living in the city proper, 24,812 people living in the municipal unit, and 56,336 in the municipality of Kilkis. It is also the capital city of the regional unit of Kilkis.-Name:Kilkis is located in a...

    , Nea Moudania
    Nea Moudania
    Nea Moudania is the seat of the municipality of Nea Propontida, Chalkidiki, Greece and its main town. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial center of the peripheral unit of Chalkidiki...

    )
  2. Higer School of Pedagogical and Technological Education
    ASPETE
    The School of Pedagogical and Technological Education or ASPETE is a Greek University which specializes in training teachers. It was founded in 2002, and took over from SELETE, a teacher training institution founded in 1959. It is a self-administered public legal entity operating in accordance...

  3. TEI of Athens
    TEI of Athens
    The Technological Educational Institute of Athens is a fully self-governing higher-educational institute under state supervision, exercised by the Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs...

  4. TEI of Chalkida (campuses: Chalkida, Thiva
    Thebes, Greece
    Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. It played an important role in Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others...

    )
  5. TEI of Crete
    TEI of Crete
    Located in Heraklion, the Technological Educational Institute of Crete was founded in 1983 to provide higher technological education to the students of Greece. According to laws Ν.2916/2001, Ν.3549/2007, Ν.3685/2008, Ν.3794/2009, it is a higher educational institute...

     (campuses: Heraklio, Chania
    Chania
    Chaniá , , also transliterated Chania, Hania, and Xania, older form Chanea and Venetian Canea, Ottoman Turkish خانيه Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania peripheral unit...

    , Rethymno
    Rethymno
    Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...

    , Agios Nikolaos
    Agios Nikolaos, Crete
    Agios Nikolaos is a coastal town on the Greek island of Crete, lying east of the island's capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia. In the year 2000, the Municipality of Agios Nikolaos, which takes in part of the surrounding villages, claimed around 19,000...

    , Ierapetra
    Ierapetra
    Ierapetra is a town in the southeast of the Greek island of Crete and a municipality of Crete region.-History:The town of Ierapetra is located on the southeast coast of Crete, along the beach of Ierapetra Bay. It lies south of Agios Nikolaos and southwest of Sitia and is an important regional...

    , Sitia
    Sitia
    Sitia refers both to the port town, with 8,900 inhabitants and to the municipality with 19,209 inhabitants in Lasithi, Crete . It lies to the east of Agios Nikolaos and to the northeast of Ierapetra. Sitia port is on the Sea of Crete, which is a part of the Aegean Sea and is one of the economic...

    )
  6. TEI of Epirus (campuses: Arta
    Arta, Greece
    Arta is a city with a rich history in northwestern Greece, capital of the peripheral unit of Arta, which is part of Epirus region. The city was known in ancient times as Ambracia . Arta is famous for its old bridge located over the Arachthos River, situated west of downtown...

    , Ioannina
    Ioannina
    Ioannina , often called Jannena within Greece, is the largest city of Epirus, north-western Greece, with a population of 70,203 . It lies at an elevation of approximately 500 meters above sea level, on the western shore of lake Pamvotis . It is located within the Ioannina municipality, and is the...

    , Preveza
    Preveza
    Preveza is a town in the region of Epirus, northwestern Greece, located at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf. It is the capital of the regional unit of Preveza, which is part of the region of Epirus. An immersed tunnel, completed in 2002 which runs between Preveza and Actium, connects the town...

    , Igoumenitsa
    Igoumenitsa
    Igoumenitsa , is a coastal city in northwestern Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit Thesprotia. Its original ancient name used to be Titani....

    )
  7. TEI of the Ionian Islands
    TEI of the Ionian Islands
    The Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands is a fully self-governing higher-educational institute under state supervision, exercised by the Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs. The institute is based in Argostoli on the island of Kefalonia, but only a few...

     (campuses: Lefkada
    Lefkada (city)
    Lefkada is a city and a former municipality on the island of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lefkada, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital and main town of the island of Lefkada, located in the northern and...

    , Argostoli
    Argostoli
    Argostoli is a town and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kefalonia, of which it is a municipal unit...

    , Lixouri
    Lixouri
    Lixouri is the main town on the peninsula of Paliki in the island of Kefalonia, one of the Ionian Islands of western Greece. Lixouri is the second largest community in Kefalonia after Argostoli and before Sami and is the capital of the small peninsula...

    , Zakynthos
    Zakynthos (city)
    Zakynthos is a city and a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zakynthos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital of the island of Zakynthos. Apart from the official name Zakynthos,...

    )
  8. TEI of Kalamata
    TEI of Kalamata
    The TEI of Kalamata ) is one of the 15 Technological Educational Institutes in Greece.- History and departments :It was founded by Presidential Decree 94/1988 as an off-campus faculty of the TEI of Patras. The first department of the faculty was the Electrical Engineering Department which started...

     (campuses: Kalamata
    Kalamata
    Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...

    , Sparti)
  9. TEI of Kavala (campuses: Kavala
    Kavala
    Kavala , is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala peripheral unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos...

    , Drama
    Drama, Greece
    Drama , the ancient Drabescus , is a town and municipality in northeastern Greece. Drama is the capital of the peripheral unit of Drama which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The town is the economic center of the municipality , which in turn comprises 53.5 percent of the...

    , Didymoteicho
    Didymoteicho
    Didymóteicho is a town located in the eastern part of the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The town sits on a plain and located south east of Svilengrad, south of Edirne, Turkey and Orestiada, west of Uzunköprü, about 20 km north...

    )
  10. TEI of Lamia (campuses: Lamia
    Lamia (city)
    Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since antiquity, and is today the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and of the Central Greece region .-Name:...

    , Amfissa
    Amfissa
    Amfissa is a town and a former municipality in Phocis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delphi, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is also the capital of the regional unit of Phocis...

    , Karpenisi
    Karpenisi
    Karpenisi is a town in central Greece. It is the capital of the peripheral unit of Evrytania. The area around Karpenisi is mountainous while farmlands are mainly in valley areas....

    )
  11. TEI of Larissa (campuses: Larissa
    Larissa
    Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...

    , Karditsa
    Karditsa
    Karditsa is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa peripheral unit.Inhabitation is attested from 9000 BCE. Karditsa ls linked with GR-30, the road to Karpenisi, and the road to Palamas and Larissa...

    , Trikala
    Trikala
    Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. It is the capital of the Trikala peripheral unit, and is located NW of Athens, NW, of Karditsa, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki, and W of Larissa...

    )
  12. TEI of Messolonghi (campuses: Missolonghi, Nafpaktos)
  13. TEI of Patras (campuses: Patras
    Patras
    Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

    , Aigio
    Aigio
    Aigio is a town and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Aigialeia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Its population is around 30,000. Aigio is surrounded by trees in the north and cliffs in the...

    , Pyrgos
    Pyrgos, Elis
    Pyrgos is the capital of the Elis peripheral unit in Greece. It is named after a local tower. The city is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, in the middle of a plain near the Ionian Sea. It is 96 km away from Patras via Greek National Road 9, 320 km from Athens, and...

    , Amaliada
    Amaliada
    Amaliada is a town and a former municipality in Elis, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ilida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It has 32,090 citizens...

    )
  14. TEI of Piraeus
    TEI of Piraeus
    The T.E.I. Piraeus was established by a special law in 1976 from the merger of the School Anastasiadis, founded in 1947 by Sivitanidios School founded in 1957. The institution provides a high level of technological education combined with applied research in selected areas...

  15. TEI of Serres
  16. TEI of Western Macedonia (campuses: Kozani
    Kozani
    Kozani is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani regional unit and of West Macedonia region. It is located in the western part of Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmonas river valley...

    , Florina
    Florina
    Florina is a town and municipality in mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'. It is also the Metropolitan seat for the region. It lies in the central part of Florina peripheral unit, of which it is the capital. Florina belongs to the periphery of West...

    , Kastoria
    Kastoria
    Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the periphery of West Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria peripheral unit. It is situated on a promontory on the western shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by limestone mountains...

    , Grevena
    Grevena
    Grevena is a town and municipality in Greece, capital of the Grevena peripheral unit. The town's current population is 10,447 citizens; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki. The municipality's population is 30,564...

     and Ptolemaida
    Ptolemaida
    Ptolemaida is a town and a former municipality in Kozani peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Eordaia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...

    )

Academies and schools

The following academies offer higher education with 4 years of studies and their graduates are equivalent to the graduates of universities. However, they operate under different terms from the universities and among other differences they have is that they are not allowed to run graduate programs on their own.
  • Hellenic Military Academy
    Hellenic Military Academy
    The Evelpidon Military Academy is the oldest tertiary level educational institution in Greece. It was founded in 1828 in Nafplio by Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first Governor of the modern Greek State....

  • Hellenic Naval Academy
    Hellenic Naval Academy
    The Hellenic Naval Academy is a military academy with university status and has the responsibility to educate and suitably train competent Naval Officers for the Hellenic Navy. Its full name is Hellenic Naval Cadets Academy and was founded in 1845. The academy is one of the oldest educational...

  • Hellenic Air Force Academy
    Hellenic Air Force Academy
    The Hellenic Air Force Academy is a military academy responsible for supplying the Hellenic Air Force with professionally trained pilots, aircraft engineers and air defence inspectors. It was founded in 1919 as the Military Academy of Aviation and renamed in 1967 as the Icarus School in reference...

  • Military School of Corps Officers
  • Military Nursing School
  • Hellenic Police Academy
  • Hellenic Fire Academy
  • Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens
  • Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki
  • Ecclesiastical Academy of Vellas
  • Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete


The following schools offer higher education with 4 years of studies and their graduates are equivalent to the graduates of Technological Educational Institutes.
  • Academy of Mercantile Marine


The following schools offer higher education of up to 2 years of studies
  • Hellenic Army School of Non-Commissioned Officers
  • Hellenic Naval Academy of Petty Officers
  • Hellenic Air Force Academy of Staff Non-Commissioned Officers
  • Hellenic Air Force Academy of Technical Non-Commissioned Officers
  • Hellenic Air Force Academy of Air Navigators
  • School of Police Constables
  • School of Chief Firemen
  • School of Tourism Education of Rhodes
  • School of Tourism Education of Agios Nikolaos

Colleges

According to the Constitution of Greece, "education at university level shall be provided exclusively by institutions which are fully self-governed public law legal persons". This prohibits private institutions for post-secondary education, colloquially known as colleges, from operating as independent universities in Greece. However, it does not prohibit colleges from collaborating with foreign universities to offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study in Greece.

The vast majority of colleges are offering programmes of study under franchise or validation agreements with universities established in other European Union countries, primarily in the UK, leading to degrees which are awarded directly by those universities. The monitoring of those agreements as well as of additional provisions for the operation of colleges is carried out by the Ministry of Education (Law 3696/2008, 3848/2010), but also by the respective educational authorities of the countries in which the universities are based (e.g. QAA, BAC and NARIC for the UK).

Effective May 2010, with the integration into Greek law of EC Directive 2005/36 on the mutual recognition of qualifications, holders of academic degrees by universities in the European Union, including those obtained through studies at a college in Greece, have their professional rights fully recognised.
  • American Farm School
    American Farm School
    The American Farm School is an independent, nonprofit educational institution located in Thessaloniki, Greece. The School was founded in 1904 by American missionary John Henry House to serve the rural population of Greece and the Balkans...

  • BCA COLLEGE
  • ALBA Graduate Business School
  • American College of Greece
    American College of Greece
    The American College of Greece was founded in Smyrna, Asia Minor in 1875 and is the considered to be Europe’s oldest and largest, comprehensive, U.S.-accredited academic institution and the largest private institute of tertiary education in Greece...

  • American College of Thessaloniki
  • CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield
    CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield
    The University of Sheffield is a leading research university located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. CITY College is the International Faculty of the University of Sheffield and is located in Thessaloniki, Greece.-History:...

  • DEI College, Registered Centre of the University of London International Programmes; UCLan.DEI College
  • University of Indianapolis
    University of Indianapolis
    The University of Indianapolis is a university located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The shortened name it uses is UIndy...

    , Athens Campus
  • Hellenic American University
    Hellenic American University
    The Hellenic American University was founded as a degree-granting institution of higher education by an Act of the New Hampshire State Legislature, with a mission to serve as a leading provider of the highest quality American graduate and undergraduate education that is globally focused,...

  • Hellenic International Studies in the Arts
    Hellenic International Studies in the Arts
    Hellenic International Studies in the Arts is a university accredited Liberal and Fine Arts study abroad program on the Greek island of Paros....

  • I.S.T. College/University of Hertfordshire
  • Mediterranean College Athens-Thessaloniki

International rankings

According to the THE–QS World University Rankings:
Institution 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , usually referred to simply as the University of Athens, is the oldest university in Southeast Europe and has been in continuous operation since its establishment in 1837. Today, it is the second-largest institution of higher learning in Greece,...

 (Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών)
NR NR NR NR 200 177

See also

  • List of colleges and universities by country
  • List of colleges and universities
  • Education in Greece
    Education in Greece
    The Greek educational system is mainly divided into three levels, namely primary, secondary and tertiary, with an additional post-secondary level providing vocational training. Primary education is divided into kindergarten lasting one or two years, and primary school spanning six years...

  • List of research institutes in Greece
  • Polytechnic (Greece)
    Polytechnic (Greece)
    The Polytechnic is the traditional name for institutions of higher education in Greece, dealing with engineering at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. There are currently two polytechnics that operate as independent universities and five polytechnic schools that belong to universities...

  • Academic grading in Greece
    Academic grading in Greece
    There are four Grading systems in Greece – four different GPA – one for higher education, one for secondary education, and two for primary education .-Universities – Polytechnics – A.T.E.I.:...


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