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Appendix table 2. Foreign students in universities and completed university degrees by level of education, fields of education (National classification of education 2016) and gender in 2016 ¹⁾

Level of education/Fields of education		New students			Total number of students			Completed degrees, total
		Total	Of whom women	%	Total	Of whom women	%	Total	Of whom women	%
Level of education, total	Fields of education, total	3 005	1 353	45,0	11 194	4 860	43,4	2 155	933	43,3
	Education	171	120	70,2	513	343	66,9	110	74	67,3
	Arts and humanities	449	308	68,6	1 693	1 032	61,0	282	184	65,2
	Social sciences, journalism and information	225	119	52,9	981	553	56,4	173	101	58,4
	Business, administration and law	442	242	54,8	1 482	754	50,9	284	150	52,8
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	313	132	42,2	1 417	577	40,7	280	126	45,0
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	559	133	23,8	1 912	451	23,6	438	102	23,3
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	686	208	30,3	2 188	622	28,4	419	121	28,9
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	37	22	59,5	285	145	50,9	65	29	44,6
	Health and welfare	92	52	56,5	611	331	54,2	79	39	49,4
	Services	31	17	54,8	112	52	46,4	25	7	28,0
University Bachelor’s degree	Fields of education, total	177	97	54,8	651	331	50,8	108	51	47,2
	Education	11	10	90,9	42	33	78,6	8	5	62,5
	Arts and humanities	67	48	71,6	253	163	64,4	33	18	54,5
	Social sciences, journalism and information	7	3	42,9	38	17	44,7	6	0	0,0
	Business, administration and law	29	11	37,9	111	50	45,0	38	15	39,5
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	17	9	52,9	68	31	45,6	6	4	66,7
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	6	1	16,7	45	10	22,2	8	3	37,5
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	33	9	27,3	76	15	19,7	6	3	50,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	0	0	-	4	1	25,0	1	1	100,0
	Health and welfare	7	6	85,7	14	11	78,6	2	2	100,0
Higher university degree (Master)	Fields of education, total	2 382	1 079	45,3	6 873	2 985	43,4	1 613	734	45,5
	Education	151	104	68,9	332	223	67,2	90	62	68,9
	Arts and humanities	333	234	70,3	1 025	650	63,4	217	152	70,0
	Social sciences, journalism and information	184	99	53,8	597	355	59,5	140	89	63,6
	Business, administration and law	375	211	56,3	1 089	578	53,1	217	125	57,6
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	233	98	42,1	735	286	38,9	184	93	50,5
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	473	112	23,7	1 409	333	23,6	362	90	24,9
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	546	172	31,5	1 339	379	28,3	320	91	28,4
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	29	17	58,6	150	83	55,3	43	15	34,9
	Health and welfare	27	15	55,6	114	61	53,5	18	10	55,6
	Services	31	17	54,8	83	37	44,6	22	7	31,8
Professional specialisation in veterinary 2)	Fields of education, total	0	0	-	0	0	-	1	1	100,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	0	0	-	0	0	-	1	1	100,0
Licentiate’s degree	Fields of education, total	1	1	100,0	20	9	45,0	1	0	0,0
	Arts and humanities	1	1	100,0	5	3	60,0	0	0	-
	Social sciences, journalism and information	0	0	-	1	-	-	0	0	-
	Business, administration and law	0	0	-	2	1	50,0	0	0	-
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	0	0	-	0	0	-	1	0	0,0
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	0	0	-	2	1	50,0	0	0	-
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	0	0	-	10	4	40,0	0	0	-
Doctoral degree	Fields of education, total	445	176	39,6	3 650	1 535	42,1	432	147	34,0
	Education	9	6	66,7	139	87	62,6	12	7	58,3
	Arts and humanities	48	25	52,1	410	216	52,7	32	14	43,8
	Social sciences, journalism and information	34	17	50,0	345	181	52,5	27	12	44,4
	Business, administration and law	38	20	52,6	280	125	44,6	29	10	34,5
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	63	25	39,7	614	260	42,3	89	29	32,6
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	80	20	25,0	456	107	23,5	68	9	13,2
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	107	27	25,2	763	224	29,4	93	27	29,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	8	5	62,5	131	61	46,6	20	12	60,0
	Health and welfare	58	31	53,4	483	259	53,6	59	27	45,8
	Services	0	0	-	29	15	51,7	3	0	0,0

1) Foreign students citizenship other than Finnish.
2) Starting from 2015, professional specialisation in medicine, except for veterinary science, is no longer included in education leading to a degree.

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 10.5.2017