Oriental Institute may refer to a number of institutes of Oriental studies:
- United States
- Oriental Institute, Chicago, part of the University of Chicago
- England
- Oriental Institute, Oxford, part of the University of Oxford
- School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London
- Continental Europe
- Oriental Institute in Sarajevo, a research institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia
- Oriental Institute, ASCR, part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague
- Pontifical Oriental Institute, a Roman Catholic university in Rome, Italy
- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, a French public institution in Paris, France
- Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, research institute in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, a university-level educational institution that operated in Moscow in 1920-1954
- Asia
- Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, in Maharashtra, India
- A number of "Institutes of Oriental Studies" originally within the USSR Academy of Sciences in Georgia, Tajikistan, and other former Republics of the USSR
- Oriental Institute, M.S. University, Baroda (est. 1927)
- Oriental Research Institute Mysore, (estb. 1891)
- University of Hong Kong
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