Students and qualifications
Statistics related to topics:Education and research
Statistics on students and qualifications contain data on pupils in pre-primary and comprehensive education and students and qualifications in post-comprehensive education leading to a qualification or degree. The data derive mainly from the KOSKI and VIRTA databases. The data are published several times a year.
Key figures
Students in education leading to a qualification or degree
1,407,847
2023
Students and qualificationsUpdated: 29/10/2024
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Students and qualifications by sex, level of education and field of education by year
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New students and qualifications in education leading to a qualification or degree by sex, nationality and sector of education
Foreign-language speaking and foreign students in education leading to a qualification or degree by municipality and year
Foreign-language speaking and foreign students in education leading to a qualification or degree by sector of education and municipality in 2013 to 2023
Pupils in grades 1 to 9 in comprehensive schools 2023
Students at universities of applied sciences 2023
Students in university of applied sciences education by sex and field of education by region 2023
University students by university 2023
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Documentation
Description of the production, used methods and quality of the statistics.
Go to documentation of the statisticsReferencing instructions
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Students and qualifications [online publication].
ISSN=1798-7679. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 22.12.2024].
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