Table

Age groups and level of degree for graduations in higher education
	2007-2008		2016-2017		2017-2018
	Graduates	Percentage women	Graduates	Percentage women	Graduates	Percentage women
¹Including graduations from programmes 4 years or less but also 2 years or longer.
²Including graduations from programmes longer than 4 years. Awarded doctoral degrees are not included.
³Doctoral degrees
Level and age
Total	35 330	60.6	51 000	59.8	52 094	60.4
Tertiary education, short and medium¹	24 660	63.4	34 176	61.7	35 156	62.3
19-24 years	11 640	65.9	19 190	63.9	19 765	64.7
25-29 years	6 487	57.9	8 316	55.4	8 579	55.6
30-34 years	2 303	59.4	2 748	60.1	2 788	62.0
35-39 years	1 746	67.0	1 485	63.6	1 605	64.9
40-44 years	1 268	68.5	1 142	68.0	1 069	67.5
45-49 years	781	68.0	764	66.8	761	64.4
50-54 years	337	63.2	374	67.4	390	70.5
55-59 years	75	57.3	122	54.9	166	50.6
60 years or older	23	69.6	35	51.4	33	36.4
Tertiary education, long²	9 439	55.4	15 335	56.5	15 438	57.1
19-24 years	1 690	52.9	3 204	59.1	3 299	57.4
25-29 years	4 868	52.9	7 538	51.9	7 434	54.4
30-34 years	1 157	55.3	1 754	55.3	1 758	54.6
35-39 years	550	58.9	886	59.3	927	57.2
40-44 years	397	62.2	739	68.7	796	66.2
45-49 years	366	71.6	593	68.3	582	71.0
50-54 years	259	71.0	395	74.4	413	72.6
55-59 years	121	67.8	168	73.2	161	68.3
60 years or older	31	54.8	58	51.7	68	55.9
Second stage of tertiary education³	1 231	44.8	1 489	49.6	1 500	50.4
25-29 years	170	36.5	242	43.8	251	36.7
30-34 years	396	42.4	483	44.3	480	47.1
35-39 years	254	44.5	310	51.3	303	54.1
40-44 years	152	48.7	196	56.1	201	60.2
45-49 years	114	49.1	126	60.3	128	58.6
50-54 years	70	57.1	45	51.1	71	57.7
55-59 years	57	52.6	50	70.0	37	56.8
60 years or older	18	50.0	37	43.2	29	55.2