The EHESS 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, country pages, which present information for each included country, and scatter plot, which enables more sophisticated cross-indicator analysis and comparison.

In the Scoreboard, 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. This section provides key indicators to compare European higher education systems according to three dimensions:
  • Transnational mobility of staff.
  • Transnational mobility of students.
  • Cooperation of institutions in education, research and innovation.
• Future-proof skills and cooperation with industrial ecosystems. This section provides key indicators to compare European higher education systems according to six dimensions:
  • Perceived value of teaching and pedagogical innovation.
  • Strengthening quality and relevance of future proof skills.
  • Cooperation with industrial ecosystems.
  • Promoting entrepreneurship.
  • Engagement in green transition.
  • Engagement in digital transition.
• EU values such as institutional autonomy and academic freedom, fostering gender balance, diversity and inclusiveness. This section provides key indicators to compare European higher education systems according to three dimensions:
  • Institutional autonomy and academic freedom.
  • Gender balance.
  • Diversity and inclusiveness.
• International cooperation in higher education, research and innovation. This section provides key indicators to compare European higher education systems according to two dimensions:
  • Global role in higher education.
  • Global role in research and innovation.
• Higher education sector context indicators. This section provides key contextual indicators allowing to better compare European higher education systems according to available resources, system composition, activities and outputs.

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 current 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 current 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. The revised version of the Scoreboard was published in July 2026.

*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.