Myanmar’s education reforming plans were set up often under different kinds of governments with the aim of changing its education system. In 2012, “Comprehensive Education Sector Review’ (CESR) was launched by the Ministry of Education (MoE) with the aim of analyzing the situation of education and shaping new policies to draft a comprehensive education plan by 2014. Under the leadership of the democratic government, a “New Education Law” was approved by the Parliament in 2014 and did amend. Based on the outcome of those two education policies and laws, the latest reforming plan which is called National Education Strategic Plan (NESP) was launched in 2015 by the democratic government. This NESP education reform is a long-term plan with two periods. The first period is from 2015 to 2021 and the second period is from 2022 to 2030. This NESP aims to reform the whole education sector from primary level to higher education level. This research focuses on the higher education reform section in the first period, between 2015 and 2021. In this research paper, there were two objectives which were (1) to identify the progress of the higher education reforming plan and (2) to examine the challenges of higher education reform in Myanmar. The qualitative research method was used to collect data. Approximately, six participants were interviewed. This research found that the higher education reform plan (during 2015 and 2021) brings some positive impacts such as increasing budget spending on education, improving university authority, and educational opportunities for its stakeholders. However, the higher education reforming plan did not reach what it aimed and faced several challenges including an insufficient budget, resistance to changing the stakeholders, the harms of Covid-19 and political instabilities.