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Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2017

Level of education	Students total	Employed students		Female students total	Of whom employed		Male students total	Of whom employed
			%			%			%
General upper secondary education	43 165	13 582	31,5	24 447	8 854	36,2	18 718	4 728	25,3
Vocational upper secondary education and training	160 199	66 775	41,7	85 515	38 618	45,2	74 684	28 157	37,7
Further qualification	54 514	37 657	69,1	29 773	20 208	67,9	24 741	17 449	70,5
Specialist qualification	25 434	22 047	86,7	14 589	12 684	86,9	10 845	9 363	86,3
Polytechnic bachelors degree	129 036	70 945	55,0	66 476	39 465	59,4	62 560	31 480	50,3
University bachelor degree	78 256	37 309	47,7	40 136	21 169	52,7	38 120	16 140	42,3
Higher polytechnic degree (Master)	12 198	10 716	87,9	7 969	7 026	88,2	4 229	3 690	87,3
Higher university degree (Master)	56 215	34 604	61,6	31 739	19 605	61,8	24 476	14 999	61,3
Professional specialisation in medicine, veterinary and dentistry	169	159	94,1	159	149	93,7	10	10	100,0
Licentiates degree	919	718	78,1	440	364	82,7	479	354	73,9
Doctoral or equivalent level	17 702	13 319	75,2	9 385	7 094	75,6	8 317	6 225	74,8
Total	577 807	307 831	53,3	310 628	175 236	56,4	267 179	132 595	49,6

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 14.3.2019