EUROSTAT - European Union Statistical Office
EUROSTAT - European Union Statistical Office
09/02/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/02/2025 03:14
Student aid: how much do EU governments give
In 2022, financial aid from governments to households and students in the EU averaged €533 per pupil for upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education and €1 766 for tertiary education.
The highest values of financial aid for tertiary education per student were registered in Denmark (€8 024), Ireland (€5 692) and Sweden (€4 948), while the lowest were in Greece (€20), Croatia (€97) and Czechia (€115).
When it comes to upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education, the highest values of financial aid were attributed by the Netherlands (€1 790), Sweden (€1 741) and Denmark (€1 644). On the other hand, financial aid was the lowest in Croatia (€7), Poland (€16) and Hungary (€76).
Source datasets: special extraction, educ_uoe_fine02 and educ_uoe_fine10
Among EU countries, the level of financial aid to households and students was higher for tertiary education than for upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education, except for Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia and Slovenia.
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