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Education

Pre-University Enrolment by Course and Level

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Feb 2025, 14:54 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Since 2006, as part of a new broad-based JC education, students are required to do at least one subject outside their area of specialisation. For example, a Science course student is required to take at least one Humanities subject and an Arts course student is required to take at least one Science subject.

Enrolment preu by Year

Data explorer

PreUniversityEnrolmentbyCourseandLevel.csv (1.3K rows, 47.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Level
Text
Course
Text
Sex
Text
Enrolment Preu
Text
(Null)0.0%
19802.3%
19812.3%
19822.3%
19832.3%
(Null)0.0%
Pre-University 120.4%
Pre-University 220.4%
Pre-University 320.4%
Junior College 119.4%
(Null)0.0%
Arts34.0%
Science34.0%
Commerce31.9%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)5.7%
1980Junior College 1ArtsMF1158
1980Junior College 1ArtsF903
1980Junior College 1CommerceMF1210
1980Junior College 1CommerceF995
1980Junior College 1ScienceMF3301
1980Junior College 1ScienceF1355
1980Junior College 2ArtsMF1167
1980Junior College 2ArtsF889
1980Junior College 2CommerceMF852
1980Junior College 2CommerceF724

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
LevellevelText--
CoursecourseText--
SexsexText--
Enrolment Preuenrolment_preuText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a27483941350c79947ebac7803df48d7"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Education. (2016). Pre-University Enrolment by Course and Level (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 29, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a27483941350c79947ebac7803df48d7/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

07 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)