SARAJEVO, MARCH 11 (ONASA) – In the winter semester of the academic year 2023/2024. A total of 50,354 students were enrolled in higher education institutions in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018, which is 6.1 percent or 3,264 students less than in the previous academic year.
The number of students enrolled in the “Old Study Program” is 102 or 0.2 percent of the total number of enrolled students.
According to the adapted “Bologna study program”, 50,252 students were enrolled, which is 99.8 percent of the total number of enrolled students.
The share of female students in the total number of enrolled students is 60.4 percent.
76 percent of students were enrolled in full-time studies, 19.5 percent in part-time studies, and 4.5 percent in distance studies.
In 2023, 9,275 students graduated in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is 10.6 percent or 1,099 students less than in 2022. The number of female graduates is 5,951 or 64.2 percent.
Out of the total number of graduates, 4.3 percent of students graduated from universities, and 95.7 percent from universities, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Statistics.
In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the academic year 2023/2034. 3,871 teachers and associates of which 3,683 are women were employed at higher education institutions on the basis of employment contracts, while 3,697 teachers and associates of which 1,803 were women were hired on the basis of another contract.
The data of higher education statistics are the result of processing data on students at higher education institutions in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Data is collected through forms ŠV-22 (control summary sheet), application form for student enrollment (form ŠV-20) filled out by students when enrolling for all years of study, statistical sheet for students who have graduated/completed studies (form ŠV-50 ) and form ŠV-60 (data on the number and structure of teaching staff in the winter semester of each year).
The data include all teachers and teaching assistants who teach at higher education institutions and do not represent a physical number of people, because a teacher and teaching assistant can teach at two or more faculties.
The statistical survey covers all students enrolled in the winter semester at all higher education institutions in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The research shows students who continued their studies according to the “old” program and those who enrolled according to the Bologna process.
Graduate students are not included in the research, since they are not enrolling in the year but are just finishing their studies.