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 Students enrolled in tertiary education (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Students enrolled in tertiary education (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002) and Nationality; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics
First available period 2003 / 2004
Last available period 2019 / 2020
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002)
  • Nationality
Concepts
  • STUDENT ENROLLED:  Student enrolling in one or more subjects or curricular units of a course of a tertiary education institution in a given school year.
  • NATIONALITY:  A person's legal citizenship at the moment of observation; account is taken of the nationality as in the identity card, passport, residence permit or the certificate of nationality. The persons who at the moment of observation have a pending process for the granting of nationality should be considered as having the nationality previously held.
  • EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION:  Organizational unit that provides one or more education and training offers.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Includes students enrolled in international mobility. Includes students enrolled in all courses offered in tertiary education institutions, except enrolled students that are only elaborating a dissertation, project work or final internship, and the enrolled students that do not meet, cumulatively, the following requirements: 60 ECTS, 300 class hours distributed by 2 semesters and final evaluation.
Last update date 30/09/2020


information presented in 3/11/2025