The percentage of students at universities and institutes of technology (UIT), who studied full-time (intensity of 90% or more) in 2024/25, was on average 60% at Bachelor’s level, 41% at Master’s level and just 10% for Upper Secondary Diploma students. Highly structured programmes, such as those usually seen at Bachelor’s level, leave students with little leeway and have to be attended full-time, whereas other programmes (such as the upper secondary level teaching diploma) are designed to be frequented alongside work or at least offer the possibility of part-time studies with a lower study intensity.
The percentage of students with a study intensity of less than 50% was relatively small at Bachelor’s level in all groups of fields of study, reaching a maximum of 20%. At Master’s level, a lower study intensity was more common: in the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as in the Economics, 31% and 30% respectively of students showed intensities of less than 50%. The majority of students (65%) at Upper Secondary Diploma level had a study intensity of less than 50%.
