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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 2019

Level of education	Fields 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	2 604	1 224	47,0	10 544	4 655	44,1	2 626	1 160	44,2
	Education	140	104	74,3	518	364	70,3	164	111	67,7
	Arts and humanities	363	255	70,2	1 622	1 029	63,4	389	243	62,5
	Social sciences, journalism and information	197	114	57,9	748	423	56,6	165	104	63,0
	Business, administration and law	292	145	49,7	1 147	598	52,1	327	161	49,2
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	349	181	51,9	1 253	567	45,3	307	139	45,3
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	481	131	27,2	2 115	552	26,1	498	156	31,3
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	591	192	32,5	2 193	624	28,5	595	160	26,9
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	66	33	50,0	276	129	46,7	53	23	43,4
	Health and welfare	110	59	53,6	610	334	54,8	97	45	46,4
	Services	15	10	66,7	62	35	56,5	31	18	58,1
University bachelor degree	Fields of education, total	230	99	43,0	857	378	44,1	137	70	51,1
	Education	24	17	70,8	72	49	68,1	25	15	60,0
	Arts and humanities	53	41	77,4	246	156	63,4	51	32	62,7
	Social sciences, journalism and information	3	0	0,0	31	16	51,6	2	1	50,0
	Business, administration and law	26	8	30,8	93	41	44,1	29	12	41,4
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	18	5	27,8	61	21	34,4	7	2	28,6
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	35	13	37,1	182	50	27,5	6	2	33,3
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	66	13	19,7	158	37	23,4	14	4	28,6
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	1	1	100,0	3	2	66,7	0	0	0
	Health and welfare	4	1	25,0	11	6	54,5	3	2	66,7
Higher university degree (Master)	Fields of education, total	1 695	812	47,9	5 662	2 555	45,1	2 042	908	44,5
	Education	89	66	74,2	282	208	73,8	118	81	68,6
	Arts and humanities	226	163	72,1	920	616	67,0	308	193	62,7
	Social sciences, journalism and information	145	87	60,0	400	248	62,0	141	95	67,4
	Business, administration and law	213	113	53,1	756	419	55,4	270	140	51,9
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	211	110	52,1	556	251	45,1	202	94	46,5
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	360	101	28,1	1 361	360	26,5	445	142	31,9
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	368	130	35,3	1 133	326	28,8	465	120	25,8
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	47	20	42,6	141	65	46,1	34	14	41,2
	Health and welfare	25	14	56,0	78	41	52,6	32	14	43,8
	Services	11	8	72,7	35	21	60,0	27	15	55,6
Professional specialisation in medicine, veterinary and dentistry	Fields of education, total	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Licentiate's degree	Fields of education, total	0	0	0	13	5	38,5	4	1	25,0
	Arts and humanities	0	0	0	3	1	33,3	2	o	0
	Social sciences, journalism and information	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100,0
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	0	0	0	2	1	50,0	0	0	0
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	0	0	0	8	3	37,5	0	0	0
Doctoral or equivalent level	Fields of education, total	679	313	46,1	4 011	1 717	42,8	443	181	40,9
	Education	27	21	77,8	164	107	65,2	21	15	71,4
	Arts and humanities	84	51	60,7	453	256	56,5	28	18	64,3
	Social sciences, journalism and information	49	27	55,1	317	159	50,2	21	8	38,1
	Business, administration and law	53	24	45,3	298	138	46,3	28	9	32,1
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	120	66	55,0	636	295	46,4	97	42	43,3
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	86	17	19,8	570	141	24,7	47	12	25,5
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	157	49	31,2	894	258	28,9	116	36	31,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	18	12	66,7	131	62	47,3	19	9	47,4
	Health and welfare	81	44	54,3	521	287	55,1	62	29	46,8
	Services	4	2	50,0	27	14	51,9	4	3	75,0

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 13.5.2020