Systems of Higher Education in an international Comparison: Spain<title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../CSS/2col_leftNav.css" type="text/css" /> </head>  <body> <div id="masthead"> <h1 id="siteName"> Systems of Higher Education in an international Comparison: Spain</h1> <h1 id="subTitle"> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia</h1> <div id="globalNav"> Educational System | <a href="../universitylife/living.html">University Life</a> | <a href="../work/internship.html">Work</a> | <a href="../madrid/geography.html">Madrid</a> | <a href="../valencia/valencia.html">Valencia</a>| <a href="../authors.html">Authors</a></div> </div> </div>  <div id="content"> <h2 id="pageName"> Statistics about university in spain</h2> <div id="breadCrumb"> <a href="#num">Students-number</a> | <a href="#wom">Women</a> | <a href="#for">Foreign</a> </div> <div class="feature"> <img src="images/graduate.jpg" alt="University in Spain" width="280" height="200" /> <h3> Graduates </h3> <p> The number of graduates in spain has doubled in the last 30 years. Nowadays female students are more than male students. With a studying quota of 38% spain is much better than germany. While the importance of international experience and knowing different languages is rising, in spain the most popular countries for studying abroad are Italy, France, Great Britain and on fourth place Germany. For german students, however, spain is one of the most popular countries to study abroad. All the following statistics are from the course 2005/2006. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="num"> <h3> Number of students</h3> </a> <p> In the course 2006/2007 there are 1.440.000 students matriculated, that are a little less than in the course 1995/1996 where there have been 1.500.000 students on spanish universities. About two thirds of them are choosing the long cycle (ciclo largo) and the others the short cycle (ciclo corto). Almost half of the students are studying social and juristic sciences. Then 25 % of them are studying subjects of the tecnical area. The rest of them is divided almost equally in the areas humanity, sciences of health and experimental sciences. The number of graduates, which do doctorate title, rised from 1995/1996 to 2005/2006 from 55.000 to 74.000. The region with the most increase of students from 1995/1996 to 2005/2006 is Murcia, with almost 10%, followed by La Roja and Communidad de Valencia. The most decrease of students has Navarra with almost 28% less students in the same timespan. The percentage of the students, which pass the access-test of the university is at about 80%. </div> <div class="story"> <a name="wom"> <h3> Percentage of women</h3> </a> <p> In the course 2005/2006 54,3% of the students matriculated are women. That are more than ten years before, where there only 52,7% students were female. The area with the lower percentage of women is the technical area, were there are only 27% women. But this rised in the last ten years by two percents, too. Also the women which do the doctor title were in 2005/2006 for the first time more than the men. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="for"> <h3> Foreign students</h3> </a> <p> The foreign students matriculated rised the last 10 years from 0,7% to almost 2% of all students. Almost half of them come from Europe, followed by South America (25%) and Africa (18%). Only 4% are coming from North America to study in spain. To do the doctorate title in spain is even more popular. More than 20% of the Ph.D. students are foreigners. </p> <p> On the other side the spanish students, which participate in the ERASMUS programme are increasing as-well. In the last 10 years the spanish students which went to other countries to study rised from 10.000 to 20.000. However, since 2000 the students, who enter spain to study are getting more than the spanish students, who leave the country. The regions where the most spanish students leave there university to study abroad, as-well as the most foreign students enter, are Madrid, Andalucia, Cataluña and Valencia. It seems that if spanish students see foreign students at their university they are animated to study abroad, too. The most popular countries for spanish students are Italy followed by France and Great Britain and on fourth place Germany. </p> <div id="Div1"> <em>Author: Stefan Edbauer</em></div> </div> </div>  <div id="navBar"> <div id="sectionLinks"> <h3> The Spanish Educational System</h3> <ul> <li><a href="school.html">School</a></li> <li><a href="uni.html">University</a></li> <li>Statistics</li> </ul> </div> <div class="relatedLinks"> <h3> Related Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.mec.es/">Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.oei.es/quipu/espana/index.html#sis2">Education System</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.spain-online.de/costablanca/auswandern/htdocs/bildungssystem.htm"> www.spain-online.de</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dija.de/wai1/showcontent.asp?ThemaID=1240">www.dija.de</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="siteInfo"> (C) 2008, Stefan Edbauer, Arno Scherhorn, <a href="http://www.juergentreml.de/">Jürgen Treml</a> </div> <br /> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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