Enrolment in Private Higher Education (1990/1991-2001/2002)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Paulo Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2002.93

In the present context of higher education in Portugal it is important toanalyse the relationship between the supply of vacancies in the severaldegree courses and the demand of applicants.After a brief introduction as regards higher education, the relationshipbetween the vacancies available and the number of applicants will beanalysed, considering that in 2001/2002 the supply overcame the demandfor the first time in private higher education.We will characterise the supply in private higher education concerningscientific and geographical areas. Furthermore, we will study howapplicants distribute themselves in the available vacancies, as regards thecomparison between Universities and Polytechnics, the geographicallocalisation, the scientific areas and the varied degree courses as well.Finally, we will analyse the grade of the last applicant who wasadmitted in each degree course taking into account the same parameters.