Broken down by the type of tertiary education, of those 160,361 students, as many as 80.2% were enrolled in faculties at universities, 13.6% in polytechnics, 4.8% attended further education (FE) and 1.4% were students of art schools.
In 2015, women accounted for an estimated 54.1 % of all tertiary students in the EU-28, according to the European Union statistical office (EUROSTAT) figures.