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 Foreign students enrolled in tertiary education (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Foreign students enrolled in tertiary education (No.) by Sex and Study cycle; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics
First available period 2000 / 2001
Last available period 2022 / 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Study cycle
Concepts
  • STUDY CYCLE:  -
  • TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTION:  Establishment of public or private education that provides courses of tertiary education level and post-secondary non-tertiary education level.
  • EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION:  Organizational unit that provides one or more education and training offers.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
  • 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.
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 16/10/2023


information presented in 18/4/2024