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Appendix table 2. Foreign students in universities and completed university degrees by level of education, fields of education (National classification of education 2016) and gender in 2018 (Corrected on 29 October 2019) ¹⁾

Corrected on 29 October 2019. The corrections are indicated in red.
Level of education	Field of education	New students			Students			Completed degrees
		Total	Of whom women	%	Total	Of whom women	%	Total	Of whom women	%
Level of education, total	Fields of education, total	2 615	1 155	44,2	10 698	4 699	43,9	2 368	1 059	44,7
	Education	137	89	65,0	564	366	64,9	143	97	67,8
	Arts and humanities	367	251	68,4	1 661	1 020	61,4	308	208	67,5
	Social sciences, journalism and information	168	98	58,3	824	471	57,2	188	117	62,2
	Business, administration and law	302	170	56,3	1 264	661	52,3	278	145	52,2
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	309	135	43,7	1 254	546	43,5	307	133	43,3
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	631	182	28,8	2 029	552	27,2	430	115	26,7
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	566	159	28,1	2 200	614	27,9	545	152	27,9
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	44	19	43,2	256	122	47,7	54	31	57,4
	Health and welfare	77	42	54,5	575	310	53,9	86	47	54,7
	Services	14	10	71,4	71	37	52,1	29	14	48,3
University Bachelor's degree	Fields of education, total	212	106	50,0	721	352	48,8	92	56	60,9
	Education	18	13	72,2	72	46	63,9	12	10	83,3
	Arts and humanities	59	34	57,6	259	153	59,1	38	28	73,7
	Social sciences, journalism and information	10	7	70,0	41	26	63,4	2	1	50,0
	Business, administration and law	29	18	62,1	95	46	48,4	27	15	55,6
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	11	5	45,5	52	21	40,4	2	1	50,0
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	41	14	34,1	76	21	27,6	5	1	20,0
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	41	13	31,7	112	29	25,9	6	0	0,0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	0	0	0	2	1	50,0	0	0	0
	Health and welfare	18	9	50,0	86	43	50,0	21	12	57,1
	Services	12	8	66,7	53	25	47,2	24	12	50,0
Higher university degree (Master)	Fields of education, total	1 840	816	44,3	6 223	2 750	44,2	1 827	833	45,6
	Education	93	63	67,7	347	234	67,4	123	83	67,5
	Arts and humanities	256	186	72,7	972	634	65,2	241	163	67,6
	Social sciences, journalism and information	112	70	62,5	449	285	63,5	155	100	64,5
	Business, administration and law	221	129	58,4	880	479	54,4	229	124	54,1
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	218	97	44,5	595	261	43,9	205	91	44,4
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	476	134	28,2	1 455	401	27,6	371	103	27,8
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	400	105	26,3	1 261	325	25,8	426	124	29,1
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	34	15	44,1	125	63	50,4	32	21	65,6
	Health and welfare	18	9	50,0	86	43	50,0	21	12	57,1
	Services	12	8	66,7	53	25	47,2	24	12	50,0
Professional specialisation in veterinary 2)	Fields of education, total	0	0	0	2	1	50,0	0	0	0
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	0	0	0	2	1	50,0	0	0	0
Licentiate's degree	Fields of education, total	0	0	0	13	6	46,2	2	0	0,0
	Arts and humanities	0	0	0	3	1	33,3	0	0	0
	Social sciences, journalism and information	0	0	0	1	1	100,0	1	0	0,0
	Business, administration and law	0	0	-	1	1	100,0	0	0	-
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	0	0	-	0	0	-	1	0	0,0
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	0	0	0	2	1	50,0	0	0	0
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	0	0	0	7	3	42,9	0	0	0
Doctoral degree	Fields of education, total	563	233	41,4	3 739	1 590	42,5	447	170	38,0
	Education	26	13	50,0	145	86	59,3	8	4	50,0
	Arts and humanities	52	31	59,6	427	232	54,3	29	17	58,6
	Social sciences, journalism and information	46	21	45,7	333	159	47,7	30	16	53,3
	Business, administration and law	52	23	44,2	289	136	47,1	22	6	27,3
	Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics	80	33	41,3	607	264	43,5	99	41	41,4
	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)	114	34	29,8	496	129	26,0	54	11	20,4
	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	125	41	32,8	820	257	31,3	113	28	24,8
	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary	10	4	40,0	127	57	44,9	22	10	45,5
	Health and welfare	56	31	55,4	477	258	54,1	65	35	53,8
	Services	2	2	100,0	18	12	66,7	5	2	40,0

1) Foreign students citizenship other than Finnish.
2) Starting from 1st of February 2015, professional specialisation in medicine, except for veterinary science, is no longer included in education leading to a degree

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 9.5.2019