At the beginning of the 2021/22 academic year, the total number of higher educational institutions in the republic is 154, with 808.4 thousand students studying in them.
As of January 1, 2020, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the number of students studying abroad in countries bordering Uzbekistan and in some CIS countries:
Kazakhstan - 89.3 thousand people
Ukraine - 77.6 thousand people
Turkmenistan - 63.6 thousand people
Uzbekistan - 53 thousand people
Russia - 48.2 thousand people
Afghanistan - 31.5 thousand people
Tajikistan - 27.6 thousand people
Belarus. - 23 thousand people
Kirghiz R. - 13 thousand people
