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Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2019 ¹⁾

Level of education	Students total	Employed students		Female students total	Of whom employed		Male students total	Of whom employed
			%			%			%
General upper secondary education	43 073	14 047	32,6	24 495	9 284	37,9	18 578	4 763	25,6
Vocational upper secondary education and training	122 149	45 459	37,2	64 030	26 166	40,9	58 119	19 293	33,2
Further qualification	27 757	19 452	70,1	15 880	10 745	67,7	11 877	8 707	73,3
Specialist qualification	13 942	12 102	86,8	8 111	7 100	87,5	5 831	5 002	85,8
Polytechnic bachelors degree	127 854	70 027	54,8	66 384	39 339	59,3	61 470	30 688	49,9
University bachelor degree	76 794	34 571	45,0	40 246	20 137	50,0	36 548	14 434	39,5
Higher polytechnic degree (Master)	14 276	11 996	84,0	9 388	7 812	83,2	4 888	4 184	85,6
Higher university degree (Master)	58 372	36 025	61,7	33 432	20 630	61,7	24 940	15 395	61,7
Professional specialisation in medicine, veterinary and dentistry	145	134	92,4	132	121	91,7	13	13	100,0
Licentiates degree	706	526	74,5	306	244	79,7	400	282	70,5
Doctoral or equivalent level	17 748	13 261	74,7	9 520	7 104	74,6	8 228	6 157	74,8
Total	502 816	257 600	51,2	271 924	148 682	54,7	230 892	108 918	47,2

1) The figures concerning vocational education for 2019 are not comparable with those for earlier years.

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 12.3.2021