How many colleges are there in the world?

First of all, there is some ambiguity in what to call "university": any form of post-secondary institution? Degree-granting? How many years: at least two or four? read more

On the other hand, there is an informal world database of university websites 4ICU (Colleges & Universities in the US), which currently has 11,307 entries -- worldwide universities that have a website. read more

On the other hand, when we look at the number of universities in Europe, we see that there are around 4000 universities in Europe. These statistics are from European Union. West Europe’s and other candidate countries universities’ are inside this statistics. read more

And there are probably hundreds of universities and colleges in the developing world that are not indexed (think of countries like East Timor or Burkina Faso, which are not exactly known for their web presence). read more