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Education

Intake, Enrolment and Graduates of Polytechnics by Course

MOE (Ministry of Education)

  1. Intake, enrolment and graduate figures refer to full-time diploma courses only. Excludes 2,010 students (of whom 921 are female) on the Polytechnic Foundation Programme for 2024.

  2. Intake includes direct entry to second year.

  3. Courses are classified according to course content of the highest weighting.

Data from 2005 to 2024

Last updated 9 months ago (12 Nov 2025)

Data explorer

IntakeEnrolmentandGraduatesofPolytechnicsbyCourse.csv (480 rows, 19.8 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Course
Text
Intake
Text
Enrolment
Text
Graduates
Text
(Null)0.0%
20055.0%
20065.0%
20075.0%
20085.0%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
Law8.3%
Services8.3%
Education8.3%
Applied Arts8.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2005FApplied Arts6871538302
2005FArchitecture, Building & Real Estate312870249
2005FBusiness & Administration238970382270
2005FEducation180469111
2005FEngineering Sciences209759392005
2005FHealth Sciences13263971877
2005FHumanities & Social Sciences71730
2005FInformation Technology188750651464
2005FLaw8322171
2005FMass Communication3241029282
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_78a8224856234eafbbc44d3d3edacd19"
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. (2019). Intake, Enrolment and Graduates of Polytechnics by Course (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 26, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_78a8224856234eafbbc44d3d3edacd19/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgleong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg

Created on

26 Feb 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)