“More than half of all those enrolled in higher education institutions are girls.”, — write: www.unian.ua
More than half of all those enrolled in higher education institutions are girls.
This year, the number of students in Ukraine increased / photo UNIAN, Iryna PustinnikovaMore applications have been submitted to universities this year than last year, and the proportion of students aged over 25 has decreased. Mykola Trofymenko, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, told about this during the briefing.
He noted that the introductory campaign ended on October 20. “Applications to universities have increased: 1 million 167 thousand against 1 million 55 thousand in 2024. This is an increase of 11%,” the representative of the ministry said.
98,182 people were enrolled in the budget for all educational levels – bachelor’s, master’s, and postgraduate – and 207,831 were enrolled in the contract. “The share of the budget in the total enrollment rose from 30% to 32%,” said Trofymenko.
The share of women among all enrolled increased from 44.8% to 52.3, i.e. by 7.5%. And the share of older than 25 years among all enrolled decreased from 28.4 to 23.9%, that is minus 4.5%.
Speaking about bachelors, Trofymenko said that management, psychology, philology, law and marketing are at the top of the demand structure for higher education.
In the TOP-10 institutions of higher education by the number of budget bachelors, the first places are occupied by the National University “Lviv Polytechnic”, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute named after Igor Sikorskyi and Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko.
“In 2025, 204 thousand 337 people were enrolled in the first courses of Ukrainian institutions of higher education, which is 5 thousand 297 people more than in the past, that is, we have a growth of 2.6%”, – noted the representative of the ministry and added that the share of contract students has increased significantly.
At the same time, the demand for master’s studies decreased by 22.3% this year, which is explained by the lower number of entrants 25+.
At graduate school, there is a sharp reduction in the share of men 25+ and a doubling of the share of women among those enrolled in the budget. “We have only 4,643 people enrolled in full-time training, which gives the right to deferment from mobilization. Full-time training, budget. We have 1,119 people enrolled in contract. This is a correspondence form of education and foreigners,” said Trofymenko.
Also speaking about the work on the admission rules-2026, he said that, in particular, it is proposed to abandon the use of motivational letters and reduce the total number of applications that an applicant can submit from 15 to 12.
Ukrainian labor marketAs UNIAN reported, earlier Aida Lindmayer, director of the International Labor Organization in Ukraine, noted that the labor force shortage in the Ukrainian labor market is between 8.6 and 8.7 million people.
According to her, in order to fill this gap, it is necessary to create proper working conditions, as well as ensure proper wages, so that Ukrainians return to the Ukrainian labor market.
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