In the context of its activities for the dissemination of information, UNESCO-CEPES is publishing basic statistical information on higher education in Central and Eastern Europe covering the post-1998 period. An effort is being made to present data that is as recent as possible. Therefore, what we publish is data provided to us directly by our partners in the respective countries. The information presented provides data for the respective academic year in the following areas:

• Number of institutions (public and private) and teaching staff (in public and private institutions);

• Student enrollments (public and private);

• Number of students per 100,000 inhabitants;

• Student/teaching staff ratio.

 

[1]	There are included 10,267 Albanian students from abroad, Albania (Source OECD, 2006); without ISCED level 6.
[2]	In addition, 10.500 students are registered as part-time students.
[3]	Some private higher education institutions have not provided the number of teaching staff, therefore its overall number is not completely correct.
[4]	Data refer to all tertiary students except students who are studying abroad.
[5]	The number of teaching staff indicates full-time and part time employees.
[6]	Part-time and full-time academic staff (head count).
[7]	Full-time and part-time students.
[8]	Number of students - without PhD students (33040 PhD students).
[9]	Including ISCED Level 6.
[10]	Without PhD students (ISCED 6).
[11]	Data refer to all tertiary students including PH.D candidates.
[12]	The number of teaching staff is expressed in full-time equivalent. Included are teaching faculties, faculty assistants and research faculties, teaching or assisting the pedagogical process at higher education institutions as well as instructional and professional support staff in 2-year vocational colleges.
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[1]	Among them, two belong to the church, and, consequently, are not accredited by the state.
[2]	Only the universities (from the number of 117 institutions, 742 faculties and colleges).
[3]	The classification public-private is based on the criteria of the founder of the organisation, no matter if they get any money from the state budget or not. In 2004 academic year there were 42 two-year vocational colleges (22 of them were private) and 52 higher educational institutions (43 incorporated into one of the 3 universities and 9 free-standing higher education institutions). All free-standing higher education institutions were private.

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^[*^] without PhD students (ISCED 6)

^[1] The data presented in this table were calculated on the basis of the data given in Table 1.0
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Data Sources

Armenia:	-	Data presented by the National TEMPUS Office at the DAAD Annual Tempus Conference (September 2005)
Belarus:		-	Higher Education Institutions in Belarus at the beginning 2005/2006. Minsk: Ministry of Education of Belarus, 2005. – 124 p. [in Russian]
		-	Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Belarus, 2005. – Minsk: Ministry of the Republic of Belarus, 2005. – 609p.
Bosnia and Herzegovina:		-	Agency for Statistic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. <www.bhas.ba>
		-	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Office of Statistic; Statistic Bulletin “Higher  Education 2004/2005 School Year”; Sarajevo, March 2005; <www.fzs.ba>
		-	Republic of Srpska, Institute of Statistics. Education Statistical Report of Institute of Statistic, Republic of Srpska; Banja Luka, May 2005. <www.rzs.rs.ba>
Croatia:		-	MSES - Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. <www.mzos.hr>
		-	In the table 3, source of the data of population is Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia (CBS). <www.dzs.hr>
Czech Republic:	-	Institute for Information on Education, Czech Republic
Estonia:		-	Databases of Statistical Office of Estonia
		-	Data available at http://pub.stat.ee/px-web.2001/dialog/statfileri.asp
Hungary:	-	Hungary, Ministry of Education. Statistical Yearbook of Education 2004/2005 <www.om.hu/doc/upload/200506/oe050531.pdf>
Lithuania:	-	Education 2004, Division of Educational and Cultural Statistics. Statistics: Lithuania.
Romania:	-	Data provided by the National Institute of Statistics
Slovenia:	-	Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Ukraine:	-	The information-analytical materials prepared for the summing-up meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 22-23 February, 2006.