(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Figures released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) show that a total of 33980 students were admitted to higher education institutions last year.
Of these 13747 were admitted to government institutions while 20233 got admissions in private institutions.
Engineering and related programmes were the most in demand among students seeking admissions to government higher education institutions.
According to NCSI data the demand for admissions in engineering-related programmes touched 30.4 per cent followed by business administration programmes (19.4 per cent) IT (12.6 per cent) cultural and community (9.1 per cent) and health-related programmes (8.5 per cent).
Statistics also show higher education institutions admitted 1355 male and 2333 female social insurance students along with 25 male and 21 female disabled students.
Students in the first university stage reached 113198 including 55569 students in government institutions and the rest in private ones. Students in the higher studies stage touched 3493 including 828 in government institutions.
In total the percentage of male students studying in Oman was 42.1 per cent against 57.9 per cent for females.
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