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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.77, # 2, 2020, pp. 40-60

Table 1: State and non-state higher education institutions (at the beginning of the
academic year)
2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19

Number of higher education
institutions 53 54 51 51 52
Number of students 158212 161234 163779 167677 176723
İncluding forms of education:
Full-time 137909 144539 150656 154927 164119
Part-time 20303 16695 13123 12750 12604
Number of students per
10,000 population 167 168 169 171 179
Number of students admitted
to higher education
institutions:
bachelor's degree - total, 35801 33645 36126 38546 42102

including forms of education:
Full-time 33746 32181 34334 36356 39900
Part-time 2055 1464 1792 2190 2202
to master's degree - total, 4913 4953 5098 6515 6937
including forms of education:
Full-time 4913 4953 5098 6515 6916
Part-time - - - - 21
Source: The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan

In the same year, 6,937 students were admitted to the master's degree of higher
education, of which 6,460 chose to study at state and 477 at non-state higher
education institutions.
The programme of training Doctor of Philosophy in Azerbaijan is implemented by 119
institutions and the number of students at this level of education is 2,064. In 2018, 665
people were admitted to the PhD programme. The programme of training Doctor of
Sciences is implemented by 89 institutions, and the number of students studying at this
level is 562. In 2018, the number of those admitted to the programme of training Doctor
of Sciences was 165 people (The State Statistics Committee, 2020).

The analysis of the Azerbaijani higher education market in recent years shows that a
number of trends have been observed. One of them is the increase in the number of
students in recent years. There is an increase on demand for higher education in
Azerbaijan. There seems to be a huge increase in the number of students in public
higher education institutions between 2005/2006 and 2018/2019 academic years.
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