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This paper presents the specific features of the higher education system of Uzbekistan, which has a sizable corruption problem.

Twenty years into independence, Uzbekistan's Soviet past still remains a politically painful and academically underexamined subject, resulting in major gaps in the historical narratives of the society.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some 25 countries began their dramatic transformation into market-based economies by liberalizing prices, dismantling the remaining instruments of Soviet-type central planning, and starting fundamental structural economic reforms.

This paper presents the specific features of the higher education system of Uzbekistan, which has a sizable corruption problem.