Education in Albania

Education in Albania

Education is a way to change the future. In Albania, all citizens have the right to education, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, guaranteed by the Constitution of Albania.

Education enrollment

In the academic year 2023-2024, in formal education were enrolled 536,780 pupils and students.

During this school year, 66,711 children are enrolled in the pre-school education. In the basic education, are enrolled 258,072 pupils, 54.7 % in primary education and 45.3 % in lower secondary education. In upper secondary education are enrolled 91,755 pupils, where the major part of pupils in upper secondary education, 82.1 %, consist of gymnasium and socio-cultural school pupils. This proportion has remained almost at the same level during the last three years. In all tertiary programs are enrolled 120,063 students.

Graduations in education

Education plays a very important role in creating human capital and is one of the preconditions for a country’s economic and social development. The Bologna program, the EU-wide standard for higher education, is applied at Albanian universities.

In the 2022-23 school/academic year, 83,548 pupils and students graduated in official education, 34.1 % in basic education, 32.4 % in upper secondary education and 33.5 % in tertiary education.

In the 2022-23 academic year, 27,991 students graduated in tertiary education, 65.2 % of the total number of graduate students in tertiary education are female.

Analyzed for each field separately, the fields of study in which most females are graduated comparatively to males are "Education" (82.6 %), followed by "Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics” (80.5 %) and “Social sciences, journalism and information” (79.7 %). The fields of study in which more males are graduated compared to females are "Services" (68.8 %), "Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction" (62.5 %), and "Information and Communication Technologies" (58.5 %).

 

Source: Ministry of Education and Sport, INSTAT

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https://www.instat.gov.al/en/themes/labour-market-and-education/education/publications/2024/education-enrollment-statistics-2023-2024/

https://www.instat.gov.al/en/themes/labour-market-and-education/education/publications/2024/graduation-statistics-2022-2023/

https://databaza.instat.gov.al:8083/pxweb/en/DST/