What is the estimated market size of post secondary education in the
European Union?  (# of students, value ($) of the market, or # of
schools)

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 07 Sep 2002 22:54 PDT

Hi thanks for visiting us. 

It seems that information available are in the 90s except for the UK
which has year 2000 figures. Would you consider mid to late nineties
figures from some EU countries be a sufficient answer?

Just let me know.

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Clarification of Question by bubbaloo-ga on 08 Sep 2002 06:14 PDT

Yes, easterangel, those #'s from the late 90's would still be helpful.  
I suspect the EU has not had a census lately to the or is in the middle of one.
If there are "estimates" of 2000-2003, this would be helpful as well. Possibly
some academic materials suggest this later #.
Thanks.

Hi! Thanks for your very interesting question. Since I was not able to
satisfactorily answer your question, I will just post this as a
comment so as to help you and other researchers that might take the
job.

One maybe good source to partially answer this question is through
this article. In a recent report about distance education in the EU,
it mentions that there are approximately 2.5 million who use it for
vocational studies. Furthermore; the report also mentions that
distance education market in the EU could be worth 1 billion ECU.
Since the primary users of distance education are post secondary
education students then this  report might have weight on your work.

EU Distance Education Market could be worth One Billion ECU
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:RqfTD_tzt5gC:www.shu.ac.uk/virtual_campus/ligis/11/lead.htm+EU+Education+Market&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


UK
“There are 1.8 million full-time and part-time students in higher
education in the United
Kingdom. 
About 11 percent of students studying in the United Kingdom are from
overseas; five
percent are European Union (EU) students and six percent are from
outside the European
Union.”

Global Education Technology Markets – UK
http://www.hellerreports.com/UKExecSum.pdf 

Austria

The Austria Educational System
http://www.eurydice.org/Documents/Fiches_nationales/files/AUSTRIA_EN.zip

Supplemental Web Pages that maybe of assistance to your work:

Education and Culture – Provides percentages of 1999 EU population
which has completed post secondary education. (Note Just on the
sidebar)
http://www.ine.es/espcif/espcifin/educ01in.pdf 

Education Expenses Among OECD Countries wherein some countries are
also members of the EU.
http://www.meb.gov.tr/stats/apk2001ing/Section_10/2EducationinOECD.htm

Size of the General EU Education Market
http://www.pjb.co.uk/Ciscopjb/cisco2000/tsld003.htm 

It's a pity I was not able to find the information you required, I
really wanted to answer the question.

Best of Luck,
Easterangel-ga