Students, graduates and lecturers at non-public universities in 1997-2011

At the beginning of the 2010/2011 academic year, there were 328 private universities educating 580.1 thousand students (i.e. 31.5% of all students). Compared to the previous year, there was a slight decrease in the number of non-public universities, moreover, the number of young people studying there decreased by 8.4%.
The very high dynamics of growth in the number of universities and students observed in the last decade of the 20th century and in the first five years of the 21st century has clearly weakened in recent years. While the number of universities in the 2010/2011 academic year increased by 48.4% compared to the 2000/2001 academic year, it slightly decreased compared to the previous year.