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Monday, January 17, 2005

Increase of the number of foreign tertiary students in the EU

The total number of foreign tertiary students in the EU-25 was around 895 000 in 2002, a 19% increase on the 1999 level.Despite absolute growth, in proportional terms, the number of foreign European students has fallen. In 1999, Europeans accounted for 49.6% of total foreign tertiary students, down to 47.9% in 2002.
There has been a general rise in the number of tertiary foreign students in the EU, with 18 of 21 countries for which data is available experiencing an increase in the number of foreign tertiary students studying in their institutions in 2002 compared to 1999.
In 2002, the UK and Germany attracted the highest number of foreign students to their universities and other tertiary education institutions. The UK had around 227 000, and Germany, about 219 000.
In general, science is not very popular among foreign students.
In 13 of 19 countries, foreign tertiary students account for a lower proportion of students in science than they do for the total. In Engineering, 11 of the 19 EU countries for which data is available have lower ratios of foreign students than they do for all subjects.
Finland has the highest proportion of its tertiary students studying S&E (37%). The popularity of these subjects in Finland also extends to tertiary foreign students, as In the majority of countries, job mobility — the number of people that were employed in both 2002 and 2003, but that have changed jobs — is lower for
women HRST than it is for men.
For every available country, job mobility is at least twice as high for 25-34 year old HRST as it is for 45-64 year olds.

Source  Eurostat, Statistics in focus, Science and Technology'

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