Credits and graduations from higher education, 2000/2001

More than 24 000 graduates were in tertiary education short and tertiary education medium, while nearly 8 000 were in tertiary education long and second stage of tertiary education. The majority of the graduates in tertiary education are females, since 19 000, or almost 60 percent, were women.

Educations in tertiary education short and medium have duration below 5 years, and include pre-school and general teacher education, engineering 3-year programme and nursing. Educations in tertiary education long have duration of 5 years or more.

Educations in tertiary education short and tertiary education medium were mainly completed by students below 25 years, apart from studies in business administration. The majority of these graduates were between 25 and 29 years and social work education where the majority were 30 years or older. Educations in tertiary education long were mainly completed by students between 25 and 29 years, apart from engineering 5-year programme were the number of graduates below 25 years is nearly. unchanged. Nearly all graduates that completed a study in the second stage of tertiary education were 30 years or older.

300 000 since the early 1990s

From 1990/91 a total of 300 000 educations were completed at Norwegian universities and colleges, 170 000 by women and 130 000 by men.

The number of completed educations per year has increased from below 20 000 in 1990/91 to more than 30 000 in 2000/01. The increase can be related to the expansion in number of colleges in order to increase the education capacity, and large birth cohorts in the early 1970s.

A lot of teachers and nurses

Education and teacher training are one of the areas with the highest number of. In 2000/01 2000 general and 2500 pre-school teachers graduated. Health, social and physical education is another popular subject, 3000 nurses graduated. in 2000/01

The number of candidates in education and teacher training has increased from 2300 to nearly 6000 per year since 1990/91. In health, social and physical education the increase has been from about 3900 to nearly 7200 per year.

Tables:

• Table 1 Graduates, by gender and educational level. Preliminary figures. 1990/91-2000/01
• Table 2 Graduates, by area of study. Preliminary figures. 1990/91-2000/01
• Table 3 Graduates by gender. Selected types of education. Preliminary figures. 1998/99-2000/01
• Table 4 Graduates by age and gender. Selected types of education. Preliminary figures. 2000/01