This is a list of universities in Syria including public, private, military and police institutions.
As of February 2025, there are 10 public universities, 1 virtual public university, in addition to 9 higher institutes in Syria, owned by the government.
In addition to that, as of January 2026, there are 2 public universities and one academy in the areas controlled by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria that are owned by the Autonomous Administration but not the Syrian government.
As of February 2025, there are 39 private universities in Syria.
These are the universities' rankings of l 2025 according to QS (Quacquarelli Symonds).
As of 2018, Syria has 2 branches of foreign public universities.
As of 2018, there are 16 high military educational institutions in Syria run by the Ministry of Defense of Syria.
As of 2018, there is 1 high educational institution for police sciences in Syria run by the Syrian Ministry of Interior.