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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 2017 ¹⁾

Level of education	Field of education	New students			Students			Completed degrees
		Total	Of whom women	%	Total	Of whom women	%	Total	Of whom women	%
Level of education, total	Fields of education, total	2 190	1 017	46,4	10 761	4 703	43,7	2 088	892	42,7
	Education	166	107	64,5	572	375	65,6	114	74	64,9
	Arts and humanities	345	226	65,5	1 688	1 032	61,1	234	148	63,2
	Social sciences, journalism and information	155	96	61,9	897	517	57,6	175	93	53,1
	Business, administration and law	270	143	53,0	1 389	718	51,7	278	150	54,0
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	259	123	47,5	1 268	547	43,1	290	109	37,6
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	356	105	29,5	1 775	428	24,1	374	89	23,8
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	488	135	27,7	2 210	592	26,8	449	136	30,3
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	49	24	49,0	273	131	48,0	54	28	51,9
	Health and welfare	88	53	60,2	593	320	54,0	91	55	60,4
	Services	14	5	35,7	96	43	44,8	29	10	34,5
University Bachelor’s degree	Fields of education, total	179	91	50,8	673	338	50,2	87	40	46,0
	Education	32	18	56,3	64	42	65,6	4	3	75,0
	Arts and humanities	58	30	51,7	255	158	62,0	31	18	58,1
	Social sciences, journalism and information	10	9	90,0	37	22	59,5	5		0,0
	Business, administration and law	25	11	44,0	107	46	43,0	22	14	63,6
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	16	9	56,3	59	28	47,5	5	2	40,0
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	5	3	60,0	47	11	23,4	8	1	12,5
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	30	8	26,7	89	20	22,5	10	1	10,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	1	1	100,0	3	2	66,7	1		0,0
	Health and welfare	2	2	100,0	12	9	75,0	1	1	100,0
Higher university degree (Master)	Fields of education, total	1 497	710	47,4	6 468	2 857	44,2	1 593	694	43,6
	Education	111	76	68,5	369	247	66,9	100	66	66,0
	Arts and humanities	220	156	70,9	1 002	645	64,4	181	119	65,7
	Social sciences, journalism and information	104	70	67,3	539	333	61,8	137	81	59,1
	Business, administration and law	206	113	54,9	1 006	545	54,2	227	123	54,2
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	150	79	52,7	601	260	43,3	179	60	33,5
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	292	89	30,5	1 301	311	23,9	321	78	24,3
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	346	92	26,6	1 338	355	26,5	344	110	32,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	35	17	48,6	143	76	53,1	36	22	61,1
	Health and welfare	21	14	66,7	104	58	55,8	40	26	65,0
	Services	12	4	33,3	65	27	41,5	28	9	32,1
Professional specialisation in veterinary 2)	Fields of education, total	2	1	50,0	2	1	50,0	0	0	-
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	2	1	50,0	2	1	50,0	0	0	-
Licentiate’s degree	Fields of education, total	2	2	100,0	15	7	46,7	2	2	100,0
	Education	1	1	100,0	1	1	100,0	0	0	-
	Arts and humanities	0	0	-	3	1	33,3	0	0	-
	Social sciences, journalism and information	1	1	100,0	1	1	100,0	0	0	-
	Business, administration and law	0	0	-	1	0	0,0	0	0	-
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	0	0	-	2	1	50,0	1	1	100,0
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	0	0	-	7	3	42,9	1	1	100,0
Doctoral degree	Fields of education, total	510	213	41,8	3 603	1 500	41,6	406	156	38,4
	Education	22	12	54,5	138	85	61,6	10	5	50,0
	Arts and humanities	67	40	59,7	428	228	53,3	22	11	50,0
	Social sciences, journalism and information	40	16	40,0	320	161	50,3	33	12	36,4
	Business, administration and law	39	19	48,7	275	127	46,2	29	13	44,8
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	93	35	37,6	608	259	42,6	106	47	44,3
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	59	13	22,0	425	105	24,7	44	9	20,5
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	112	35	31,3	776	214	27,6	94	24	25,5
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	11	5	45,5	125	52	41,6	17	6	35,3
	Health and welfare	65	37	56,9	477	253	53,0	50	28	56,0
	Services	2	1	50,0	31	16	51,6	1	1	100,0

1) Foreign students citizenship other than Finnish.
2) Starting from 1st of February 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 8.5.2018