Table 1: Number of tertiary education students by level and sex, 2013

(thousands)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Table 1: Number of tertiary education students by level and sex, 2015

(thousands)

Tertiary total Short-cycle tertiary Bachelor's or equivalent Master's o

Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
EU-28 19,530.6 8,969.2 10,561.3 1,397.5 668.8 728.7 11,984.4 5,597.4 6,387.0 5,423.1
Belgium 504.7 222.7 282.0 24.4 9.0 15.4 365.9 160.0 205.9 97.9
Bulgaria 279.0 126.8 152.2 – – – 186.7 88.4 98.3 85.6
Czech Republic 395.5 168.9 226.6 1.0 0.4 0.6 236.9 101.2 135.7 133.1
Denmark 313.8 134.7 179.1 35.0 17.7 17.2 195.1 80.2 114.8 73.8
Germany 2,977.8 1,550.1 1,427.6 0.4 0.1 0.3 1,792.4 981.5 811.0 988.8
Estonia 55.2 22.7 32.5 – – – 36.3 15.4 20.9 16.0
Ireland 214.6 105.4 109.3 16.5 7.6 8.9 161.3 80.6 80.7 28.6
Greece 677.4 347.7 329.7 – – – 599.0 312.3 286.7 54.6
Spain 1,963.9 920.2 1,043.7 372.4 193.0 179.4 1,204.4 553.6 650.8 355.1
France 2,424.2 1,102.9 1,321.2 495.5 250.7 244.8 991.2 412.6 578.5 868.9
Croatia 162.0 70.5 91.5 0.1 0.0 0.1 100.9 47.1 53.8 57.9
Italy 1,826.5 797.6 1,028.9 6.5 4.9 1.6 1,076.7 491.4 585.3 710.5
Cyprus 37.2 16.1 21.1 3.1 1.5 1.6 20.0 9.5 10.5 12.9
Latvia 85.9 34.7 51.2 16.1 6.4 9.7 50.6 21.8 28.9 16.9
Lithuania 140.6 59.7 81.0 – – – 108.1 48.2 59.9 29.9
Luxembourg 6.9 3.4 3.5 0.6 0.3 0.3 3.2 1.6 1.6 2.5
Hungary 307.7 139.9 167.8 11.7 4.3 7.3 214.7 100.3 114.5 74.1
Malta 13.2 5.8 7.4 2.5 1.1 1.4 7.0 3.0 4.0 3.5
Netherlands 842.6 401.9 440.7 18.7 8.1 10.6 646.9 311.0 335.8 162.6
Austria 426.0 199.2 226.7 77.9 36.0 41.8 183.8 87.0 96.8 140.3
Poland 1,665.3 682.1 983.2 2.7 0.5 2.2 1,104.4 483.8 620.6 514.8
Portugal 337.5 157.7 179.8 0.4 0.3 0.1 203.8 94.1 109.8 114.0
Romania 541.7 251.0 290.7 – – – 354.2 172.5 181.7 168.2
Slovenia 85.6 35.8 49.8 11.5 6.6 4.9 48.9 20.0 28.9 22.6
Slovakia 184.4 74.5 109.9 2.8 1.0 1.8 102.4 42.2 60.3 70.0
Finland 302.5 140.4 162.1 – – – 219.4 105.2 114.2 63.2
Sweden 428.6 174.9 253.7 25.2 12.7 12.5 246.4 91.2 155.2 135.6
United Kingdom 2,330.3 1,021.9 1,308.4 272.5 106.5 166.0 1,523.9 681.7 842.2 421.1
Iceland 18.9 7.0 11.9 0.5 0.2 0.2 13.4 5.2 8.2 4.5
Liechtenstein 0.8 0.5 0.2 – – – 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.2
Norway 268.2 113.0 155.2 9.8 8.2 1.6 188.8 74.0 114.8 62.1
Switzerland 294.5 147.8 146.6 10.3 4.2 6.1 195.4 99.3 96.1 65.0
FYR of Macedonia 63.5 29.0 34.5 – – – 59.4 27.2 32.2 3.9
Serbia 241.1 106.6 134.5 – – – 194.7 88.4 106.3 37.8
Turkey 6,062.9 3,276.7 2,786.2 2,013.8 1,062.8 950.9 3,527.6 1,915.9 1,611.7 443.3

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75.5 87.1 14.5 7.3 7.2
63.3 76.9 24.1 12.9 11.2
178.0 336.8 43.4 19.9 23.5
54.3 59.7 19.3 9.0 10.3
68.4 99.7 19.3 10.0 9.3
8.0 14.6 2.6 1.2 1.4
26.6 43.4 9.1 4.7 4.3
25.8 37.4 19.9 9.4 10.5
59.8 75.7 21.4 11.1 10.2
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(%)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Figure 1: Distribution of tertiary education students by field and sex, EU-28, 2015
(%)

Male Female
Social sciences, journalism and information;
13.7 18.5
business, administration and law
Engineering, manufacturing
11.7 4.1
and construction
Health
3.7 9.4
and welfare
Arts and
4.3 7.9
humanities

Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics;

7.4 4.6
information and communication technologies

Education 1.7 5.8

Services 1.9 1.8
Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary 0.9 0.9
Unknown 0.7 0.9

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 Table 2: Number of tertiary education graduates by field, 2013
(thousands)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Table 2: Number of tertiary education graduates by field, 2015

(thousands)

Natural
Social
sciences,
sciences,
mathematics Engineering,
journalism and
Arts and and statistics; manufacturing Health
Education information;
humanities information and and welfare
business,
and construction
administration
communication
and law
technologies
EU-28 (¹) 421.2 498.2 1,531.3 467.6 629.4 619.5
Belgium 10.2 11.9 34.9 6.1 12.8 28.8
Bulgaria 5.0 4.2 31.2 4.3 8.8 4.1
Czech Republic 9.9 7.5 30.5 8.5 14.2 9.8
Denmark 6.5 9.6 23.0 6.7 7.9 16.1
Germany 52.3 66.3 161.6 78.4 121.7 39.0
Estonia 0.8 1.3 3.5 1.3 1.5 1.3
Ireland 5.3 8.9 20.8 9.9 6.9 11.1
Greece (²) 6.6 7.6 21.8 7.9 12.2 7.3
Spain 71.3 38.8 114.8 39.6 71.7 63.8
France 25.3 69.5 311.4 78.4 111.6 118.8
Croatia 1.4 3.6 14.3 3.3 5.4 3.7
Italy (²) 25.5 59.3 120.1 3.4 : 60.7
Cyprus 1.4 0.7 3.3 0.5 0.9 0.6
Latvia 1.1 1.3 7.0 1.4 2.1 2.4
Lithuania 2.3 2.6 14.1 1.9 5.6 4.4
Luxembourg 0.3 0.2 0.9 0.2 0.1 0.3
Hungary 11.1 6.5 24.1 4.5 10.6 5.4
Malta 0.4 0.5 1.4 0.7 0.3 0.5
Netherlands : : : : : :
Austria 10.6 7.5 26.6 8.0 16.5 5.6
Poland 69.9 38.3 177.0 37.1 78.0 68.1
Portugal 5.2 6.7 22.4 5.5 15.3 13.9
Romania 4.7 12.3 51.8 14.9 22.9 14.7
Slovenia 1.9 1.8 6.4 1.8 3.0 1.9
Slovakia 8.0 4.5 20.1 5.2 7.8 10.7
Finland 3.7 7.3 14.4 6.6 9.6 11.1
Sweden 9.4 4.8 24.0 6.1 14.2 17.1
United Kingdom 71.0 114.7 250.1 125.8 67.8 98.2
Liechtenstein 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0
Norway 7.9 4.1 13.1 3.9 6.2 9.8
Switzerland 8.5 7.0 30.5 7.8 13.2 12.5
FYR of Macedonia 0.5 1.6 4.9 1.2 1.1 1.1
Serbia (²) 4.6 5.5 17.9 5.1 8.9 4.0
Turkey 82.4 87.8 366.9 44.3 106.4 61.5

(¹) Sum of available data for the EU Member States.

(²) 2014.
Source: Eurostat (online data code: educ_uoe_grad02)

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 Table 3: Distribution of tertiary education graduates by field, 2013
(%)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Table 3: Distribution of tertiary education graduates by field, 2015

(%)

Natural
Social
sciences,
sciences,
mathematics Engineering,
journalism and
Arts and and statistics; manufacturing Health
Education information;
humanities information and and welfare
business,
and construction
administration
communication
and law
technologies
EU-28 (¹) 9.3 11.0 33.8 10.3 13.9 13.7
Belgium 9.0 10.6 31.0 5.4 11.4 25.6
Bulgaria 8.0 6.7 49.8 6.8 14.0 6.6
Czech Republic 10.1 7.7 31.1 8.7 14.5 10.0
Denmark 8.8 12.9 30.8 9.0 10.6 21.6
Germany 9.6 12.2 29.7 14.4 22.3 7.2
Estonia 8.0 12.3 33.2 12.0 14.5 12.0
Ireland 7.9 13.3 30.8 14.6 10.2 16.5
Greece (²) 9.8 11.4 32.4 11.8 18.1 10.9
Spain 16.2 8.8 26.2 9.0 16.4 14.5
France 3.4 9.2 41.4 10.4 14.8 15.8
Croatia 3.9 9.9 39.6 9.1 14.8 10.2
Italy (²) 6.8 15.8 32.1 0.9 : 16.2
Cyprus 17.6 9.2 41.9 6.0 11.3 8.0
Latvia 6.8 7.9 41.3 7.9 12.5 14.0
Lithuania 7.1 8.0 43.9 5.8 17.3 13.8
Luxembourg 16.1 8.7 45.8 8.4 5.5 15.4
Hungary 16.2 9.5 35.1 6.5 15.5 7.9
Malta 10.9 13.0 35.0 17.0 7.8 13.0
Netherlands : : : : : :
Austria 12.7 9.0 31.8 9.6 19.7 6.7
Poland 13.5 7.4 34.3 7.2 15.1 13.2
Portugal 6.9 9.0 30.0 7.4 20.5 18.6
Romania 3.5 9.2 38.8 11.2 17.2 11.0
Slovenia 10.1 9.5 34.3 9.5 16.2 10.1
Slovakia 13.1 7.4 32.9 8.4 12.7 17.5
Finland 6.5 12.9 25.3 11.5 17.0 19.5
Sweden 12.1 6.2 30.6 7.9 18.1 21.8
United Kingdom 9.6 15.5 33.8 17.0 9.2 13.3
Liechtenstein 0.0 0.0 80.6 0.0 18.4 1.1
Norway 16.5 8.6 27.1 8.1 12.9 20.2
Switzerland 9.8 8.2 35.4 9.0 15.4 14.4
FYR of Macedonia 4.2 14.1 43.8 10.4 9.6 10.2
Serbia (²) 9.0 10.8 35.4 10.1 17.5 8.0
Turkey 10.3 11.0 45.8 5.5 13.3 7.7

(¹) Average of available data for the EU Member States.

(²) 2014.
Source: Eurostat (online data code: educ_uoe_grad02)

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forestry,
Services Unknown
fisheries and
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3.7 1.7 0.2

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6.4 1.7 0.1
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4.2 2.0 :
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6.2 1.9 :
4.7 1.6 :
1.6 4.0 0.0
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8.1 4.5 0.0
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 Figure 2: Distribution of tertiary graduates by field and sex, EU-28, 2013 (¹)
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Figure 2: Distribution of tertiary graduates by field and sex, EU-28, 2015

30
(%)

Male Female
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Social sciences,
journalism and
information; business, 13.5 21.1
administration and
law
20
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manufacturing 10.4 3.9
and construction
Health
3.6 10.4 15
and welfare
Arts and
3.7 7.6
humanities
Natural sciences,
mathematics and 10
statistics; information 6.2 4.4
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technologies
Education 1.9 7.7
Services 1.8 2.0 5
Agriculture, forestry,
fisheries and 0.9 0.9
veterinary
Unknown 0.1 0.1 0
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Male Female Total

EU-28 (¹) 24.9 13.1 19.1
50
Ireland 45.4 17.9 31.5
Finland 33.6 13.4 23.7
Spain 31.4 13.3 22.4
Austria 32.6 11.4 22.1
United Kingdom 27.2 17.0 22.1
40
France 28.7 14.2 21.4
Poland 23.6 19.0 21.4
Germany 29.2 11.3 20.5
Denmark 26.9 13.2 20.2
Portugal 22.7 14.6 18.6
Lithuania 24.9 11.7 18.5 30
Czech Republic 22.0 12.2 17.2
Slovenia 21.3 12.8 17.2
Croatia 21.4 12.1 16.8
Slovakia 20.9 12.0 16.6
Greece (²) 20.0 12.4 16.2
Malta 21.7 10.0 16.1 20
Sweden 19.8 10.6 15.3
Romania 16.7 13.0 14.9
Bulgaria 17.7 11.3 14.6
Italy (²) 16.0 11.1 13.6
Belgium 19.4 7.1 13.3
Latvia 17.2 8.4 12.9 10
Estonia 14.1 11.4 12.8
Hungary 16.2 8.0 12.2
Netherlands (²) 14.6 5.0 9.9
Cyprus 9.5 7.0 8.3
Luxembourg 3.6 1.4 2.5
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EU-28 (¹)
Switzerland 30.5 9.2 20.0
Serbia (²) 17.7 11.9 14.9
Norway 20.1 8.6 14.5
Turkey 15.6 8.3 12.0
Liechtenstein 12.6 10.4 11.5
FYR of Macedonia 7.5 6.5 7.0

Note: ranked on the ratio for total ratio (for men and women).
(¹) Estimates.
(²) 2014.
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United Kingdom

France

Poland

Germany

Denmark
inhabitants aged 20–29 years, EU-28, 2003–13 (¹)

Portugal

Lithuania

Czech Republic

Slovenia

Croatia

Slovakia
mputing, engineering, manufacturing and construction, 2015

Greece (²)

Malta

Male
Female
Sweden

Romania

Bulgaria

Italy (²)

Belgium

Latvia

Estonia

Hungary

Netherlands (²)

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Serbia (²)

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Serbia (²)

Turkey
Switzerland

Liechtenstein

FYR of Macedonia

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 Table 4: Teaching staff in tertiary education by level and sex, 2013
(thousands)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Table 4: Teaching staff in tertiary education by level and sex, 2015

(thousands)

Tertiary total Short-cycle tertiary

Total Male Female Total Male Female
EU-28 (¹) 1,448.5 843.9 604.6 93.7 47.1 46.6
Belgium 28.6 14.7 13.9 : : :
Bulgaria 23.7 12.3 11.4 – – –
Czech Republic 16.5 9.9 6.6 0.1 0.0 0.1
Denmark 37.1 21.2 15.9 1.7 1.0 0.7
Germany 396.2 244.8 151.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Estonia 4.8 2.5 2.4 – – –
Ireland (²) 9.2 5.2 4.1 : : :
Greece (³) 15.2 10.2 5.0 – – –
Spain 157.0 90.3 66.7 33.0 17.1 15.9
France (⁴) 109.2 67.8 41.4 20.9 14.4 6.5
Croatia 16.1 8.4 7.7 : : :
Italy 90.0 56.4 33.5 – – –
Cyprus 2.9 1.7 1.2 0.6 0.3 0.3
Latvia 6.8 3.0 3.8 1.1 0.4 0.7
Lithuania 13.1 5.7 7.3 – – –
Luxembourg 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0
Hungary 21.0 12.2 8.9 0.8 0.5 0.3
Malta 1.6 1.1 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.1
Netherlands 62.6 34.8 27.8 1.1 0.6 0.5
Austria 60.9 34.9 26.0 9.3 4.5 4.8
Poland 97.4 54.2 43.3 0.6 0.2 0.5
Portugal (⁵) 32.3 18.0 14.4 – – –
Romania 27.8 14.0 13.7 – – –
Slovenia 7.1 4.2 2.9 1.4 0.7 0.7
Slovakia 12.8 7.0 5.8 0.5 0.2 0.3
Finland 14.9 7.3 7.6 – – –
Sweden 34.1 19.0 15.1 0.5 0.3 0.2
United Kingdom (¹) 148.5 82.6 65.9 22.8 10.9 11.8
Liechtenstein 0.1 0.1 0.0 – – –
Norway 27.7 15.1 12.6 0.7 0.3 0.4
Switzerland 33.3 21.9 11.4 – – –
FYR of Macedonia (³ 3.4 1.7 1.7 – – –
Serbia 10.7 5.9 4.8 – – –
Turkey (³) 142.4 81.5 60.9 16.6 10.1 6.5

(¹) Short-cycle and other tertiary: 2014.

(²) Independent private institutions: excluded. Other tertiary education: includes short-cycle tertiary education; 2014. Academic staf
(³) 2014.
(⁴) Independent private institutions: excluded. Short-cycle tertiary education: includes post-secondary non-tertiary personnel.
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 Table 5: Student–academic staff ratios in tertiary education, 2013
(number of students per member of academic staff)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Table 5: Student-academic staff ratios in tertiary education, 2015

(number of students per member of academic staff)

Tertiary total Short-cycle tertiary

EU-28 (¹) 15.6 14.4
Belgium 22.8 :
Bulgaria (²) 12.9 –
Czech Republic 23.3 11.2
Denmark 11.2 23.2
Germany 12.0 13.6
Estonia 14.0 –
Ireland : :
Greece (3) 44.5 –
Spain 12.7 11.0
France 18.6 19.5
Croatia 74.5 :
Italy 20.2 –
Cyprus 17.2 10.7
Latvia 18.7 20.5
Lithuania 16.5 –
Luxembourg : 11.0
Hungary 14.6 15.0
Malta 9.8 9.9
Netherlands 15.4 15.4
Austria 14.4 8.6
Poland 14.9 8.3
Portugal (4)(5) 13.9 :
Romania 18.7 –
Slovenia 17.1 19.5
Slovakia 13.0 8.3
Finland 15.1 –
Sweden 10.4 9.6
United Kingdom (5) 15.9 :
Liechtenstein 8.5 :
Norway 10.5 12.9
FYR of Macedonia (3 18.1 :
Serbia 23.8 –
Turkey (3) 20.3 48.4

(¹) Short-cycle tertiary: 2014.

(²) Excluding Doctoral or equivalent students enrolled in scientific organisations.
(3) 2014.
(4) Other tertiary education and total tertiary education: includes post-secondary non-tertiary personnel giving courses in higher edu
(5) Other tertiary education: 2014.
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(%)
Education and training
Tertiary education

Figure 4: Public expenditure on tertiary education relative to GDP, 2014

(%)

(%)
EU-28 1.3

Denmark (¹) 2.3

Finland 2.0
Sweden 1.9
Austria 1.8
Netherlands 1.7
Belgium 1.5
Estonia 1.4
Malta 1.4
United Kingdom 1.3
Lithuania 1.3
Germany 1.3
France 1.3
Poland 1.2
Latvia 1.1
Cyprus 1.1
Slovenia 1.1
Ireland 1.0
Slovakia 1.0
Spain 1.0
Portugal 0.9
Czech Republic 0.8
Italy 0.8
Hungary 0.8
Bulgaria 0.7
Romania 0.7
Luxembourg 0.5

Norway (1) 1.9

Turkey 1.6
Iceland 1.5
Switzerland 1.3
Serbia 1.3

Note: Greece and Croatia, not available.

(¹) 2013.
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