Enrollment numbers at the public university Spain 2016/2017 to 2023/2024, by studies

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Jan 22, 2025

From 2016/2017 to 2023/2024, most of Spanish public university students were studying at the social and legal sciences faculty, with figures reaching approximately 504,000 graduates in the 2016/2017 academic year. Science is the least popular field of study in public universities, with approximately 80,400 students in all of Spain in 2024.

Number of students registered at public universities in Spain from the school year 2016/2017 to 2023/2024, by field of study

Characteristic	Social & legal sciences	Engineering & architecture	Arts & humanities	Health sciences	Sciences
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June 2024

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Region

Spain

Survey time period

2016 to 2023

Supplementary notes

The figures only include applications from undergraduate students.

* Provisional data

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