Number of students applying to higher education institutions in 1996: 80,000

Students admitted to higher education institutions for the 1996/97 academic year: 38,400 (48% of applicants)

Number of secondary school students in the 1996/97 academic year:

Academic secondary schools	140,867
Vocational secondary schools	220,528
Vocational schools	143,800
Schools of shorthand - typing	1,870
Vocational schools of health sciences	1,067
Special vocational schools	11,624
Total	519,756

1997: 118,000 students submitted 240,000 applications (from among which 170,000 competed for the 42,000 spaces of state-supported, full-time education).

Increase of students in higher education:

1990/91: 77,000

1996/97: 142,000

Number of students graduating from higher education in 1996/97: 20,000 (38% increase from 1990)

Number of higher education institutions in 1995/96: 90 (30 universities, 60 colleges; 58 state, 28 church run, 4 foundation supported institutions). In 1998 the number of higher education institutions approaches the 100.

Basic acts which regulate Hungarian education:

1. Act LXXIX of 1993 (amended in 1995 and 1996) on Public Education
2. Act LXXX of 1993 (amended by the Act of LXI of 1996) on Higher Education

Main features of the Act on Public Education to be introduced gradually from the 1998/99 academic year:

1. vocational training only after the 10^th grade
2. compulsory education to the age of 18
3. implementation of the National Core Curriculum
4. possibility of the Basic Education Exam after the 10^th grade
5. preparations for the two-level Maturity Exam (administered first in 2004)

Expected changes in higher education from the 1998/99 academic year:

1. introduction of the credit-system
   
2. increase of tuition fees

Prepared by: Ildikó Ficzkó, Educational Adviser, József Attila University, AFIK,Szeged, Hungary

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