University students · Latest available · 2024 People enrolled in short-cycle, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes. Countries with a figure: 27 of 27. Equal intervals from low to high. Colours show values, not whether a result is good or bad. The latest year can differ by country; see the data table for each year. Malta, Luxembourg and Cyprus have enlarged markers. Outlines are simplified; overseas territories are not shown. 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27 EU countries University students Latest available · 2024 Sweden: 494,296 · 2024 Spain: 2,444,290 · 2024 Slovakia: 141,119 · 2024 Slovenia: 80,648 · 2024 Romania: 544,623 · 2024 Portugal: 430,226 · 2024 Poland: 1,397,520 · 2024 the Netherlands: 969,491 · 2024 Malta: 22,276 · 2024 Luxembourg: 8,364 · 2024 Lithuania: 100,744 · 2024 Latvia: 74,017 · 2024 Italy: 2,311,830 · 2024 Ireland: 283,845 · 2024 Hungary: 310,414 · 2024 Greece: 885,486 · 2024 Germany: 3,272,090 · 2024 France: 2,879,210 · 2024 Finland: 338,808 · 2024 Estonia: 44,377 · 2024 Denmark: 290,902 · 2024 Czechia: 343,827 · 2024 Cyprus: 57,889 · 2024 Croatia: 155,387 · 2024 Bulgaria: 195,697 · 2024 Belgium: 551,141 · 2024 Austria: 442,235 · 2024 8,364 661,109 1,313,850 1,966,600 2,619,340 3,272,090 No data / outside the EU Countries with a figure: 27 of 27. People enrolled in short-cycle, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes. Equal intervals from low to high. Colours show values, not whether a result is good or bad. The latest year can differ by country; see the data table for each year. Eurostat · University students · Latest available · 2024 Natural Earth · Eurostat · averageperson.eu 8,364 – 661,109
> 661,109 – 1,313,850
> 1,313,850 – 1,966,600
> 1,966,600 – 2,619,340
> 2,619,340 – 3,272,090
No data / outside the EU
Malta, Luxembourg and Cyprus have enlarged markers. Outlines are simplified; overseas territories are not shown.
See all country figures 27 / 27 People enrolled in short-cycle, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes.
Equal intervals from low to high. Colours show values, not whether a result is good or bad. The latest year can differ by country; see the data table for each year.
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