Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary education

Indicator id: school_enrolment_tertiary · Unit: % (gross enrolment ratio) · Coverage: 1981-2024

Total enrolment in tertiary education (ISCED 5-8: short-cycle, bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes), regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population five years after the official upper-secondary-school leaving age.

Sources

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (preferred) -- dataset UIS, code GER.5T8 (https://uis.unesco.org)

Caveats

A gross ratio: the numerator counts all tertiary students regardless of age against a fixed reference-age denominator, so it can legitimately exceed 100% in countries with lots of older, part-time, or repeating students (upper bound set generously above 100 for that reason, though Nepal itself has stayed well under 25% throughout the series -- rising from ~3% in the early 1980s to ~21% by 2024).

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 4.3 -- Ensure equal access to affordable technical, vocational and tertiary education
Topic: Education
Themes: education, youth

Also known as

"university enrolment", "college enrolment", "tertiary enrolment", "higher education enrolment", "how many Nepalis go to university"

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