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Tertiary education in Greece
Higher Educational Institutes are consisted of two parallel sectors: the Technological Universities
(T.E.I.) and the Universities. In addition, colleges collaborating with foreign universities can offer
undergraduate and postgraduate UK foreign programmes of study in Greece, under the proper
registration with the Greek Ministry of Education. Usually, these programmes are provided
following 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.
In some cases these institutions are wholly owned and operated branch campuses of foreign
institutions, as in the case of the University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus. List of universities in
Greece
According to the European University Association, austerity measures imposed after the 2010
bailout halved public funding for higher education in real terms between 2009 and 2014; Greece
now spends an average of €545 per student. Spending cuts were such that eight Greek universities,
including the University of Athens, had to close down temporarily in fall 2013 because they lacked
the staff to keep the university running. [2]
Prospective students do not have to take entrance exams in Greece. Admission is based on one’s
high school results.