Most students graduating with a matriculation examination in 2025 graduated from a line of study programmes classified as “other”, i.e. unspecified or open study tracks. This is the first year in nearly a decade, since 2016, that the natural sciences line of study was not the largest among graduating students.
Nearly one-third of graduates, or 939 students, graduated from an “other” or unspecified line of study in the 2024–2025 school year. About one-fifth, or 700 students, graduated from a natural sciences line of study, while 522 students graduated from a social sciences line of study.
The number of students graduating from natural sciences and social sciences lines of study has declined considerably over the past decade, while an increasing number of students have graduated from lines of study classified as “Other.” Over the last ten years, natural sciences, social sciences, and other have been the largest study tracks among graduates. The figure below shows the development in graduations from these lines of study during that period.
The number of students graduating from programmes outside the traditionally defined lines of study has steadily increased over the past ten years. Only 73 students graduated from programmes classified as “Other” in the 2015–2016 school year. That number has since risen sharply, with more than 800 students graduating from such programmes annually since the 2020–2021 school year.
In total, 3,332 students graduated with matriculation examination in the 2024–2025 school year, including 1,887 women and 1,445 men. This total is in line with recent years. Additionally, 288 students graduated from commerce and economics lines of study, 230 from arts lines, 86 from foreign languages lines, and 80 from information and communication technology lines. The remaining students graduated from additional studies after vocational examination (457 students) and from an International Baccalaureate programme (30 students).
Most graduates were 19 years old at the time of graduation, while the number of students graduating at age 20 continues to decline compared to the previous year. Age is calculated based on age at the end of the calendar year of graduation.