Country
Ethiopia

Source
Article in WENR - World Education News and Reviews

Title
Dated 16 Nov 2018 | Education in Ethiopia | by Stefan Trines, Research Editor, WENR

About
An education profile which describes recent trends in Ethiopian education and student mobility and provides an overview of the structure of the education system of Ethiopia.

Key findings
2nd most populous nation in Africa after Nigeria | 40% of the population is under 15yrs old. | Ethiopia Literacy rate of 39% as at 2012 | Only 15% of Universities had Doctoral Degrees. | Enrolment to Tertiary Education in 2014 = 8.1% | 61 Accredited Higher Education Institutes. | Out-migration / Brain Drain continues to be a problem. | Amharic is the official language, there are 10 plus other languages used regionally | English spoken by 30% | in 2015 there were 352,144 students enrolled in TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET) | University students tend to be mostly males, from affluent urban areas | in 2015 only 35% undergraduate students and 25% of graduates were female. | 44 Operational Public Universities | In 2015 - there were 729,028 undergraduate students, only 37,152 students in master’s programs and 3,135 students in doctoral programs.| most popular subjects in undergraduate programs at public institutions were: engineering and technology | business and economics | and the social sciences and humanities. | At private institutions, 50% plus of students studied business and economics, followed by health sciences, engineering, and technology. | At graduate level, social sciences and humanities were the most popular disciplines overall.

Website
https://wenr.wes.org/2018/11/education-in-ethiopia