According to the State Testing Center, the most documented higher education institution in the region is Samarkand State University, the Uzbek-Finnish Pedagogical Institute.

 21052 entrants applied for it.

 The next places were taken by Samarkand State University (18414 people), Samarkand State Institute of Architecture and Construction (10006 people).

 Also:

 Samarkand State Medical Institute - 8262;

 Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages - 5900;

 Samarkand Institute of Veterinary Medicine - 5087;

 Samarkand Institute of Economics and Service - 4463;

 Samarkand branch of Tashkent University of Information Technologies - 2566;

 To Kattakurgan branch of SamSU - 1842;

 Samarkand branch of Tashkent State Agrarian University - 1038;

 Samarkand branch of Tashkent State University of Economics - 897;

To SamSIFL Narpay Faculty of Foreign Languages - 146;

 106 entrants applied to the Faculty of Foreign Languages of SamSIFL Payarik.