521 postgraduate specialists obtained their degree in 2021, with 345 or 66.2 per cent of them being women, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics has revealed.
According to a press release issued by the authority, the total number of university specialists was distributed among Croatian universities, with the leading university being the University of Zagreb (57.6 per cent), University of Rijeka (18.4 per cent) and the University of Osijek (14.5 per cent), SchengenVisaInfo reports.
Other universities had fewer postgraduate specialists; the University of Split (5.2 per cent), the University of North registered 1.9 per cent, the same as Koprivnica, while the Libertas International University and the University of Pula had a share of 0.8 per cent of these students. In addition, 0.6 per cent of these students were at the University of Zadar and 0.2 per cent at the University of Slavonski Brod.
The female postgraduate specialists make up all the students at the University of Zadar and at the Libertas International University (100 per cent), while the University North, Koprivnica, have a share of 80 per cent of female students on this level.
While the University of Slavonski Brod has no female students, other universities such as the University of Osijek, University of Zagreb and the University of Split have a share of 78.9 per cent, 64.3 per cent and 62.9 per cent of postgraduate specialists’ female students. In addition, there are 60.4 per cent female students at the University of Rijeka and 50 per cent at the University of Pula.
As the first education search platform backed by AI, Erudera.com reports, the most specialist theses of 2021 or 40.7 per cent of them, were related to social sciences, followed by biomedicine and health (38 per cent), engineering (7.3 per cent), interdisciplinary fields of science (6.5 per cent), biotechnical sciences (3.8 per cent), natural sciences (1.7 per cent), artistic field (1.2 per cent) and humanities (0.8 per cent).
“Regarding age, the largest number of all university specialists was classified in the 30 – 34 age group (36.3 per cent) and the smallest one in the 50-and-over age group (6.3 per cent). There were 8.1 per cent of university specialists in the up-to-29 age group, 25.1 per cent in the 35 – 39 age group, 13.4 per cent in the 40 – 44 age group and 10.8 per cent in the 45 – 49 age group,” the report issued by the Statistics Office reads, noting that 93.5 per cent of them had previously graduated in Croatia and 6.5 per cent abroad.
Moreover, the same source shows that employers mainly covered the costs of postgraduate university studies as they paid for 50.7 per cent of the studies, 46.6 per cent were financed by university specialists themselves, while the costs of 2.7 per cent belong to other’s category.