5% of students in Romania attended college abroad in 2018, according to Eurostat data.

According to these figures, in Europe 8% of students were studying in a country other than the one where they graduated high school from.

Luxembourg has the highest share of students, 48%, followed by Cyprus, 24 percent, Austria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.

In contrast, the lowest percentages were in Croatia and Greece, 3%, followed by Spain and Poland, 4%, Lithuania and Romania 5%.

In 2018, in Romania, according to the Ministry of Education, there were just over 408 thousand students enrolled in both state and private universities.

Out of these, 6% were foreign students studying in Romania.

Translated by: Radu Matei