Goal 4 - Quality education

Regional piority - Creating conditions for improving the accessibility and effectiveness of education and equalizing educational opportunities. (Supporting education at all levels in the area of preparation for compulsory school-leaving exams)

Indicator 4.D.6 - Number of students of higher education institutions per 10 thous. population

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Name of the indicator	4.D.6 Number of students of higher education institutions per 10 thous. population
Sustainable Development Goal	Goal 4. Quality education
Priority	Creating conditions for improving the accessibility and effectiveness of education and equalizing educational opportunities. (Supporting education at all levels in the area of preparation for compulsory school-leaving exams)
Definition	Number of students of higher education institutions per 10 thous. total population
Unit	people per 10 000 population
Available dimensions	total
Methodological explanations	Higher education institution is a unit constituting a part of the system of science and education, providing study programmes in at least one field of study. Higher education institution may be public and non-public; non-public universities are established on the basis of a permit of the Minister competent for higher education and science. Universities provide education in the form of full-time and part-time studies. A student is a person educating at the first or second degree studies or uniform master's studies. Students are shown as many times as many majors they study. The data are presented according to the actual location of universities and foreign units / branches. The data includes foreigners. Data until 2011 – without schools of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but including foreign units of Polish universities abroad (published at the place of the home university). Data since 2012 – including schools of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but without foreign units of Polish universities abroad.
Source of data	Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Statistics Poland
Data availability	Annual data, since 2010
Notes	Until 2016, data obtained from the Statistics Poland reporting. Since 2017, data on universities, with the exception of data on parts of universities run by churches and other religious associations, have been compiled on the basis of the Integrated Information System on Science and Higher Education POL-on administered by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
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