Indicator history

The exact number of students with citizenship of other countries, studying at the universities in Slovenia in 2009 was 1969.  It makes 1 ,5 % of total population of university students in Slovenia. Most of the students with no citizenship of Slovenia study at the University of Ljubljana (1215) and 75 % of them have origin in countries established after the break of Yugoslavia (759 in Croatia, 255 in Macedonia, 253 in Bosnia and Herzgovina, 145 in Serbia, etc.).

The number of students at the univeristies in Slovenia with no citizenship of Slovenia have been increasing in past years (according to some data there is in 2012 around 1.350 such students studying at the biggest university - University of Ljubljana). Recently, in January 2012, the scholarship scheme to students studying at the univerisities in Slovenia, having no Slovenian citizenship was abolished by the government and the protests against such policy have been organised by students, professors and other supporters.

Sources:

Statistical data on high education, Ministry of High Education, Science and Technology, July 2010, http://www.mvzt.gov.si/fileadmin/mvzt.gov.si/pageuploads/pdf/visoko_solstvo/statistika_visokega_solstva_07072010.pdf. Date of access: 5.2.2012.

Invitation to students' protests, 17.1.2012.