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Education

Percentage of P1 Cohort Admitted to Post-Secondary and Tertiary Education by Type of Course

Data from Jan 2003 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 09 Dec 2024, 09:30 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Students who enrol in one course may progress subsequently to another course and are accounted for under both types of courses. For example, polytechnic students who progress to university will be accounted for under both publicly-funded diploma and degree courses. Figures for admission to (i) Nitec / Higher Nitec Courses (full-time), (ii) Publicly-Funded Diploma Courses (full-time), and (iii) Pre-University Courses are based on the P1 cohort from 10 years prior to the year of reporting, while (iv) Publicly-Funded Degree Courses (full-time) is based on the P1 cohort from 12 years prior to the year of reporting.

(2) Publicly-funded diploma courses are offered by the five polytechnics, ITE, LASALLE and NAFA.

(3) Publicly-funded degree courses are offered by NUS, NTU, SMU, SUTD, SIT, SUSS, LASALLE and NAFA.

(4) Figures for the last five years are preliminary.

Percentage by Year

Data explorer

PercentageofP1CohortAdmittedtoPostSecondaryandTertiaryEducationbyTypeofCourse.csv (84 rows, 4 KB)

Post Secondary Course
Text
Year
Year (YYYY)
Percentage
Text
(Null)0.0%
Pre-University Courses25.0%
Nitec/Higher Nitec Courses [full-time]25.0%
Publicly-Funded Degree Courses [full-time]25.0%
Publicly-Funded Diploma Courses [full-time]25.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Pre-University Courses200328
Pre-University Courses200428.1
Pre-University Courses200528.1
Pre-University Courses200628.2
Pre-University Courses200728.3
Pre-University Courses200828
Pre-University Courses200927.6
Pre-University Courses201027.5
Pre-University Courses201127
Pre-University Courses201227.8

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Post Secondary Coursepost_secondary_courseText--
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
PercentagepercentageText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_77af1549353613193ae58aebe56a8e04"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Education. (2020). Percentage of P1 Cohort Admitted to Post-Secondary and Tertiary Education by Type of Course (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_77af1549353613193ae58aebe56a8e04/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

12 Aug 2020

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)