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European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard

European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard

What is the European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard? 

The European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard (EHESS) is a key tool of the European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO). EHESS is an interactive data visualisation platform to monitor the policy agenda of the European Education Area by showcasing relevant indicators on countries and higher education systems. It presents higher education data and information at country level, organised according to the key EU higher education policy objectives.

What information does the European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard provide?

The tool is a one-stop-shop to track, monitor and gain insights on European higher education systems and their contexts. EHESS provides a thematic view, which enables European higher education systems to be compared on relevant policy dimensions, and country pages, which present information for each included country.

In the thematic view, users can compare European higher education systems according to key indicators organised around major themes corresponding to the main EU higher education policy objectives: 

  • Transnational cooperation in Europe in higher education, research and innovation.
  • Future-proof skills and cooperation with industrial ecosystems.
  • EU values such as institutional autonomy and academic freedom, fostering gender balance, diversity and inclusiveness.
  • International cooperation in higher education, research and innovation.

  • Higher education sector context indicators.

The European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard brings together different sources of data, including the Eurostat educational statistics, data from European Tertiary Education Register (ETER), U- Multirank, EUROSTUDENT and EUROGRADUATE projects, as well as additional international data sources such as publication data and ERASMUS+ data on student and staff mobility.

The geographical coverage of the first EHESS edition encompasses EU-27, EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), the United Kingdom and some of the candidate and potential candidate countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Türkiye, Kosovo*). The reference year for the first edition is calendar year 2022, corresponding to academic year of 2021/2022 in Eurostat. Whenever possible, time series data is available up to the year 2015.

The first edition of European Higher Education Sector Scoreboard (EHESS) was launched in January 2025.

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.

The Scoreboard will be revised and improved regularly. If you notice any inconsistencies or inaccuracies in the Scoreboard, please contact us as indicated in the Contact us section.