The number of graduates is falling

According to mno.hu, Eurostat’s latest data show that the number of graduates decreased in Hungary again in the last year. They examined how the percentage of the people having a degree changed in the age group 30 – 34. In fact, Hungary accepted that it would increase the graduates’ rate to at least 34%. Moreover, in 2014 and 2015 it even reached this goal. However, the present tendency is the opposite, since this rate decreased in 2016 to 33% while in 2017 to 32.2%.

The number of graduates and university students is decreasing

Between 2005 and 2015 the rate of female degree holders increased; however, this tendency stopped in 2016. Though their share was 41% in 2015 in their age group, this number fell back to 37.8% in 2017. On the contrary, men’s rate of this age group having a degree increased from 26.4% (2016) to 26.9% (2017).

While the rate of the graduates fell back in Hungary

it has increased in the EU-28 from 39.1% (2016) to 39.7% (2017). In fact, among the EU-28 only Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Finland, Lithuania, Luxemburg and Hungary produced decreasing numbers in this regard. Even so, Northern countries should not be ashamed of this tendency. In fact, the rate of the graduates in Finland is still 45.3%. Furthermore, in Lithuania, it is 58.2%, while in Luxemburg this number is 54.5%.

The government published a higher education program in 2017. In this, they wrote that the rate of those students who complete their studies and do not finish it without a diploma should be increased. In this paper, the government confessed that if secondary education agreed with admission requirements of the universities more, there would be more students who could finish their studies in time.