A significant increase in the total number of applicants, and marked increases in applications for health sciences, business administration and technology and science studies characterize the number of applicants to higher education recent years.
Health subjects maintains its position as the most popular field to search in. But the technology and science studies, as well as financial and administrative studies have also experienced a significant seeking growth.
Deficit of teachers and health workers
Health subjects – as in the graph above include, among other medicine, nursing and social work subjects – are experiencing growth in such periods because many draws against the public when the labor market is harder. It believes Terje Naess, a researcher at NIFU, Nordic Institute for Education Studies.
– We see it both on the influx of health sciences and teacher education. If the labor improves, it is not unlikely that a search there also declines, he said.
But it will not necessarily be so fooled. According to Statistics Norway estimates of the professions community will have the greatest need in the future, comes just health and teachers well. It looks worse for students who choose economic and administrative sciences.
The projection estimates that in 2025 will be:
- Deficit of just under 40,000 teachers with short higher education.
- Deficits of around 35,000 people in nursing and care worker.
- Profits at around 60 000 graduates with education in economics and business administration.
– Students adapts
Naess believes that prospective students are quick to adapt signals from industry.
– The increase in applicants for finance and administration may be due to the great expansion in capacity. But we see that the applicants are pretty quick to adapt the signals they receive from the industry, he said.
– Decrease in applicants for such media studies are the consequences of media coverage about bad times in the industry.
Jus most popular last year
Although overall health sciences who has the most applicants to the field, it was in 2014 Law at the University of Oslo who was the most popular program, with 2115 applicants. This was followed by MBA studies at NHH. Total searched 120,000 people higher education last year.
– Much of the large increase in number of applicants in recent years reflects poorer labor. When the labor market is tougher, more students applying to higher education, says Næss.
He has followed applicant numbers developments since 2000, and justifies a part of the growth of the labor market, greater numbers of young people, and an active education policy.
– When labor improves and growth in youth cohorts fades, probably also rise in the number of applicants to higher education to go down, he said.
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