Press release from Statistics Sweden

2007-12-14 1:49 PM Nr 2007:347


Higher education plans of upper secondary school pupils:

Women most interested in higher education

Six out of ten upper secondary school students in the final year of 2007/08 have plans to begin university or university college studies within the next three years. The percentage of women (67%) is somewhat higher than men (51%).

Interest for higher education is greatest among students in the Natural Science Programme. Within this group, 89 percent plan to study att universities and university colleges within the next three years.

Universities of Lund and Gothenburg most popular

For the tenth year in a row, universities in Lund and Gothenburg are the most popular places to study higher education among pupils in the graduating year of upper secondary school 2007/08. Of those students planning to begin higher education, twelve percent wanted to study in Lund and eleven percent in Gothenburg. Next on the popularity list are Uppsala University, Stockholm University and Chalmers University of Technology.

Small interest for technology and natural science among women
Nine percent of pupils in the graduating year of upper secondary school who planning to begin higher education want to study technology, 16 percent of the men and two percent of the women. Seven percent of the pupils want to study natural science, eight percent of the men and six percent of the women.

Large interest for studies abroad
More than one half of the pupils who planning to begin higher education, say they are interested to study a part of the education abroad. The women are more interested to study abroad than the men, 61 percent respective 39 percent. Since the beginning of the survey (1993/94) has the interest to carry out parts of the higher education abroad been larger among women than among men.

Definitions and explanations

Higher education plans for upper secondary school pupils is a survey done every second year. The survey was conducted by using postal end Internet surveys during october-december from pupils in the graduating year of upper secondary school 2007/08. The sample size in 2007 year survey was hardly 5 000. The response rate was 63 percent.

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Sinisa Sauli
Phone +46 19 17 62 15
E-mail sinisa.sauli@scb.se





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