A nationwide survey covered 73 academic lyceums across all 14 regions of Uzbekistan, with 24,557 students and 2,520 teachers taking part.

Participants assessed the quality of teaching, learning conditions, and the level of preparation for higher education.

According to the survey results, positive ratings across most of the 24 key indicators ranged from 75% to 90%.

Top-performing lyceums in terms of education quality and the learning process:

• Academic Lyceum No. 2 of Karshi State Technical University – 96.4 points;
• Academic Lyceum of Termez State University of Engineering and Agrotechnologies – 93.2 points;
• International Finance Academic Lyceum – 92.1 points.

The full ranking of academic lyceums is available in the report.

Key areas requiring improvement:

• 41.2% of students gave negative assessments of sports facilities, while 41.4% expressed dissatisfaction with classroom and everyday facilities;
• Practical and laboratory classes are not sufficiently organized across all lyceums;
• One in four students (25.4%) reported needing additional preparation to enter higher education institutions;
• 25% of teachers considered their workload excessive, while 43.9% reported having no access to international professional development programmes or internships.

Highest-rated areas:

• Textbooks and library resources received the highest rating, at 83%;
• IT infrastructure and internet access received a positive rating of 75%.

Based on the findings, targeted improvement measures will be developed for academic lyceums with lower performance indicators.

Detailed results by region and individual lyceum are available in the full report.