Tertiary education

In 2024, there were 315 thousand students attending public and private universities in Czechia. Compared to the previous year, their number increased by two percent. Nearly one in five university students held foreign citizenship. While 22% of Czech female residents aged 20-29 were enrolled in university in 2024, the figure for males was only 17%. While the number of students has been gradually increasing since 2019, the number of graduates steadily declined since 2012, and only in the last two years has their number grown again to 66 thousand. However, this is still a significantly lower figure than in the record year of 2012, when a total of 94 thousand students graduated from university. The number of first-time enrolled students at universities has been increasing since 2017, with a decrease only in 2022. In 2024, there were 68 thousand first-time enrolled students at universities.