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 Students enrolled in tertiary education (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Students enrolled in tertiary education (No.) by Area of education and training (cultural education); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics
First available period 1999 / 2000
Last available period 2024 / 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Area of education and training (cultural education)
Concepts
  • AREA OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING:  Field of the National Classification of Education and Training Areas that groups programs according to the similarity of their contents.
  • EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION:  Organizational unit that provides one or more education and training offers.
  • 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.
  • 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 14/10/2025


information presented in 4/11/2025