Norway Yearbook - 2003

Education
I77 Pupils and students by ownership and type of school. 1 October 2001
Type of school Total Public Private
Total 412763 365326 47437
Upper secondary schools 163 829 154996 8833
Apprentices 29325 29325
Other upper secondary education 10058 1 205 8853
State colleges 90264 90 264
Military colleges 574 574 -
Other colleges 25418 1 592 23826
Universities 81 358 80389 969
Folk high schools 5710 754 4956
Labour market courses 6227 6 227 -
Source: Education statistics, pupils and students, Statistics Norway. More information: http:/Avsw.ssb.no/engIisFt/subjects/04/O2/uteIstud/
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Type of school
Pupils and students, after their parents' educational level and type of school.
1 October 2001. Per cent
Number
The parents educational level
Per cent
Primary
Primary
and Upper and
Upper
Un-
Long
lower
Long Short second- lower
Short higher secondary known
Total higher
second-
higher higher ary level secondeducation1
level of educa- education1 ary level education1 education1 of edu- ary level
education tion
of edu-
cation of education
cation
Total 412763 47419 109040 207935 27898 20471 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Upper secondary education,
general education . 92938 13 547 31 098 42211 3663 2419 28.6 28.5 20.3 13.1
Upper secondary education,vocationaleducation2
70891 2492 12990 48382 5748 1279 5.3 11.9 23.3 20.6
Otherfieldsof study2 10058 856 2343 4873 857 1129 1.8 2.1 2.3 3.1
Folk high schools 5710 713 1 799 2243 135 820 1.5 1.6 1.1 0.5
Labour market programmes
6227 89 401 2192 1142 2403 0.2 0.4 1.1 4.1
Apprentices 29325 780 4822 20780 2549 394 1.6 4.4 10.0 9.1
Universities 81 358 19386 26111 26603 2890 6368 40.9 23.9 12.8 10.4
State colleges 90264 6816 22833 47770 8717 4 128 14.4 20.9 23.0 31.2
Military colleges 574 92 190 264 24 4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
Other colleges 25418 2 648 6453 12617 2 173 1 527 5.6 5.9 6.1 7.8
1Paicipants with long higher education have completed an education with a duration of at least four and a half year. Partcipants with a short
higher education have completed an education with a duration of four years or less. 2Other fields of study have earlier been included in upper
secondary, vocational subjects.
Source: Education statistics, pupils and students, Statistics Norway. More information: http:/Mw.ssb.no/uteIstud_errJ
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