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Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Active education-organisation records for the selected countries from release 2.13, 22 September 2026. Public CC0 metadata, with multilingual names and published website links.

ROR identifies organisations; it is not a national accreditation register and does not establish complete country coverage.

NCES IPEDS HD2024

All CYACTIVE=1 postsecondary institutions in downloaded HD2024, including US territories and vocational providers; 78 inactive records excluded. Not a 2026 accreditation guarantee. HD2025 was404.

Office for Students register

Entire current published OfS register including explicitly annotated deregistration/removal statuses. OfS is England, registration is voluntary; it cannot prove all UK private delivery providers.

AoC England publicly-funded FE corporations

Complete respective published AoC corporate list. England asat6August2026, other nations publishedSeptember2025; does not include all unregistered/private colleges or school sixth forms.

AoC Scotland publicly-funded FE corporations

Complete respective published AoC corporate list. England asat6August2026, other nations publishedSeptember2025; does not include all unregistered/private colleges or school sixth forms.

AoC Wales publicly-funded FE corporations

Complete respective published AoC corporate list. England asat6August2026, other nations publishedSeptember2025; does not include all unregistered/private colleges or school sixth forms.

AoC Northern Ireland publicly-funded FE corporations

Complete respective published AoC corporate list. England asat6August2026, other nations publishedSeptember2025; does not include all unregistered/private colleges or school sixth forms.

SFC-funded universities and HEIs

Complete19 funded university/HEI names on current SFC page; private nonfunded institutions are outside this list.

GOV.UK recognised bodies in Wales

Complete current GOV.UK recognised-body list, including Open University and Royal College of Nursing; not every Welsh delivery partner.

Northern Ireland Department for the Economy HE

Complete3universities+2universitycolleges in current departmental HE list. Six FE corporations arealready included through AoC.

Statistics Canada — Open Database of Educational Facilities v3.0.1

2,066 postsecondary facility records selected from the ISCED 4+ field. Source data was collected between July and November 2024; province and campus context are retained.

Open Government Licence — Canada. This is a facilities inventory with varying provincial coverage, excludes online-only facilities and may include renamed or closed facilities. It is not a 2026 accreditation register. Source licence: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada — open DLI institution-type statistics

928 distinct province and institution-name pairs classified as university, college or career college in publicly released study-permit statistics. Latest source year is retained for each name; 507 have observations in 2026.

Open Government Licence — Canada. Statistical reporting coverage does not include every institution, and a historical observation does not establish current DLI designation or recognition. Source licence: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Department for Education — Get Information about Schools (GIAS) daily bulk data

Open records in the 4 October 2026 public bulk extract whose explicit DfE type is further education, higher education, sixth-form centre, 16–19 academy/free school, special post-16 institution, university technical college or city technology college. Distinct URNs are retained with actual status, classification, website and locality where supplied.

Open Government Licence v3.0. Complements the OfS and AoC lists; overlaps are expected. Ordinary primary/secondary schools, nurseries, unclassified independent schools and unregistered training businesses are excluded. Technical-college types can deliver secondary-level qualifications; a GIAS entry does not establish degree-awarding powers or a complete list of every UK private college.

China Ministry of Education — national higher-education institution list, 2026

3,196 mainland institutions as of 17 June 2026: 2,952 regular and 244 adult higher-education institutions. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan excluded by the publication.

Names and Ministry codes extracted from publicly published spreadsheet copies on dataxiv/data-universities. Counts agree exactly with the Ministry publication. Downloaded files retain hashes and mirror URLs; byte identity with the Ministry-origin files is unverified. Ministry-list status is not a claim of partnership with IQVS.

YÖK Atlas — public university choices, 2026

228 entries in the public YÖK Atlas university API: 206 in Turkey and 22 in other countries/territories.

Foreign institutions are classified by the country shown in the published name; 16 Northern Cyprus entries appear under Cyprus. This is the published admissions list, not a claim of every licensed campus or programme.

Türkiye e-Government — university services list

207 public university-service entries. Exact institution-name matches merged with YÖK Atlas; one additional domestic institution retained.

The combined source set contains 207 Turkey institutions. An e-Government service listing does not itself establish every programme's current accreditation.

National University of Skill — public institution map

All 31 provincial map responses examined on 4 October 2026; 156 university/teaching-unit records retained after excluding news and administrative portals.

Teaching units belong to the named university system and are not necessarily independent awarding institutions. The old tvu.ac.ir hostname remains in the public map. A conflicting default English title on portal 7 is retained only as source metadata, not as an accepted alias.

Farhangian University — universities and faculties map

31 provincial universities in the live public map examined on 4 October 2026.

This provincial structure does not assert coverage of every historic individual teacher-training campus.

Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education — MSRT statistics, 1403–1404

Official statistical table 2-10 from the 1403–1404 academic year: 109 university or higher-education teaching institutions before cross-source duplicate removal.

Downloaded directly from the published chapter-2 ZIP on irphe.ac.ir. Research-only organisations were excluded. Student-statistics inclusion is historical evidence, not a current all-Iran institution or accreditation register.

Islamic Azad University — admissions booklets, 1404–1405 / 2025

327 distinct IAU units and centres recovered from two 2025 admissions booklets; one named unit is in the United Arab Emirates.

Public PDF copies retrieved from samanehha.com; publisher identity, covers, academic-year headers and campus codes examined. Downloaded hashes retained, but byte identity with publisher-origin PDFs is unverified. Programme and self-financing capacity codes are not counted as separate institutions. Not claimed to list every current IAU campus.

University of Applied Science and Technology — associate admissions booklet, Mehr 1404 / 2025

381 distinct named training centres in the 2025 associate admissions source after spacing-variant normalization.

Public PDF copy retrieved from pasokhbama.com; its dated cover and page headers identify the 2025 booklet despite the older upload-directory path. Downloaded hash retained; byte identity with the university-origin document is unverified. Training centres are not assumed to be independent universities or the full historical UAST network.

National Organization of Educational Testing — academic-record admissions booklet, 1404 / 2025

633 additional named institution/teaching-location entries before merging with live maps: includes 279 Payame Noor centres and 183 nonprofit institutes.

Public 232-page PDF copy retrieved from blog.taraz.org; Ministry/publisher cover and 1404 admission headers examined. Downloaded hash retained; byte identity with the publisher-origin file is unverified. Campus-specific teaching locations are preserved and are not claimed to be independent awarding institutions. The combined Iran dataset is not asserted to contain every currently licensed university, college or medical school.

Australian Department of Education – CRICOS

1,274 non-school-only providers from the current CRICOS export published 30 September 2026. All source universities, degree providers, colleges, vocational/language providers and five entries with unspecified active course scope retained.

271 providers offering only primary/secondary course levels excluded. Student-visa registration is not equivalent to TEQSA higher education accreditation or all domestic providers. Source licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia; preserve government/source attribution.

UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation

All 159 institution entries in the public CAA table: 103 active, 55 inactive and one unclassified source status code T.

Current, historical and adverse status entries remain explicit. Not 159 active providers or a complete list of every free-zone/vocational approval. Native Arabic/former-name aliases and individual GUID source pages retained.

Oman Ministry of Education programme guide

All 106 distinct institution labels returned by the Ministry public programme guide, covering 2,577 programme rows.

Includes historical institution names, campuses and training centres. Not a consolidated current institutional licensing register; present legal name/licence not independently confirmed.

Bahrain Education and Training Quality Authority

All 20 institution options in the official higher education review-directory filter.

Directory inclusion does not imply a favourable review, active licence or NQF listing, and does not cover every vocational provider.

Saudi Ministry of Education public universities

All 29 public universities from the public page’s own data source, with 25 explicit HTTPS institution websites.

Private universities/colleges and technical/vocational institutions are outside this source. The private list redirected to sign-in; restricted access was not attempted.

Jordan Ministry – Study in Jordan

All 65 institution and branch-college options in the official current admissions/major-search page.

Public, private, intermediate and vocational entries included; branch colleges are not counted as separate universities. English display labels and current licensing not independently confirmed.

Qatar Ministry of Education and Higher Education

Current 2026–2027 ministry page: seven public institutions, 19 private institutions and two teaching locations, with native Arabic aliases.

Four subdivisions of one university represented by the parent. A programme/approval register is a separate source. Public primary-page extraction used after native TLS validation failed; validation was not bypassed.

Kuwait Government Online – Civil Universities List

All four private universities and six private colleges in the English/native Arabic government information pages.

Source retains historical labels. Public universities and vocational institutes outside this list. Current name/licensing not separately confirmed; no institutional website URLs guessed.

ENIC-NARIC Networks

Official information source for ENIC-NARIC Networks.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB).

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for ENIC-NARIC France.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for Nuffic.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for CIMEA – NARIC Italia.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for NARIC Ireland (QQI).

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for Australian Government Department of Education – Qualifications Recognition.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks country information

Official information source for ENIC-NARIC Türkiye – Council of Higher Education.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

Government of Alberta – IQAS

Official information source for International Qualifications Assessment Service.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

International Credential Assessment Service of Canada

Official information source for International Credential Assessment Service of Canada.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

British Columbia Institute of Technology – ICES

Official information source for International Credential Evaluation Service.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies – CES

Official information source for Comparative Education Service.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

World Education Services official website

Official information source for World Education Services.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

ENIC-NARIC Networks – United Kingdom

Official information source for UK ENIC.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

Ecctis official website

Official information source for Ecctis.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

Qualification Check official website

Official information source for Qualification Check.

Information, assessment and regulatory mandates differ by body. Inclusion is not an IQVS partnership or a guarantee of report acceptance. UK NARIC augments UK ENIC as a historical alias; four accepted profiles receive alias/provenance additions.

English directory labels

Published English names are preferred. Bilingual CSSD/MOE workbooks dated 15 June 2023 are used only where both the school identifier and current native name agree.

Where a published English name is unavailable, a descriptive English label or romanized source name is identified as a directory label on the profile. Native names remain searchable; a derived label is not an institution’s official English name.

Geographical display names — GeoNames

Selected geographical names used in descriptive directory labels are derived from GeoNames and exact native-place matches.

GeoNames attribution: licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Geographic naming does not verify an institution, campus relationship or qualification.