Table

New entrants to higher education and highest awarded degree 8 years later
	Total	Males	Females
¹Figures for 2011 were corrected 3 December 2020.
Year of entry and highest awarded qualification
2001
New entrants, in total	40 928	16 434	24 494
Awarded qualification	54.5	47.4	59.3
Doctorates, Ph.D	0.2	0.4	0.1
Tertiary graduates from programmes longer than 4 years	15.6	19.2	13.3
Tertiary graduates from programmes lasting 2-4 years	38.6	27.8	45.9
No awarded qualification	45.5	52.6	40.7

2011¹
New entrants, in total	47 597	20 366	27 231
Awarded qualification	66.2	60.2	70.5
Doctorates, Ph.D	0.3	0.3	0.2
Tertiary graduates from programmes longer than 4 years	24.3	26.1	22.9
Tertiary graduates from programmes lasting 2-4 years	41.6	33.8	47.4
No awarded qualification	33.8	39.7	29.4